Post * QyN6 — Curious Curator

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TIL when the U.S. Post Office issued the first stamp honoring Elvis in 1993, stamp collectors mailed letters with these stamps to bad addresses to have them marked “Return to Sender”

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AMyo TIL Jesse James once gave a widow who housed him enough money to pay off a debt collector and then robbed the debt collector as the man left the widows home

4BZX TIL that in the 1920’s soviet researcher Ilya Ivanov inseminated female chimpanzees with his own sperm, and human women with chimpanzee sperm.

dnZK TIL A Listerine mouthwash ad from the 1920s coined the phrase, “Often a bridesmaid but never a bride” to describe women with bad breath.

Pj6n TIL that the voice actor who played Yoda was also Bert/Grover/Cookie Monster on Sesame Street

MedZ7 TIL about the plunge for distance, a short-lived olympic swim event where competitors jumped from the edge of the pool and floated motionless as far as possible. It was criticized as "not an athletic event at all" since competitors "merely throw themselves heavily into the water and float along".