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TIL of the town Nalcrest, Florida where you have to be a retired letter carrier to live there and which, quite ironically, does not have mail delivery service.

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x6klB TIL that USPS ships day old baby chicks in the mail
j67XR TIL Oscar winning actor Cillian Murphy and his wife bought a cinema dating back to 1919, and that was forced to shut down during the COVID pandemic , to give it a new lease of life. You can find the Phoenix Cinema in Dingle, Ireland.
VMgYZ TIL of 102-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand who held the 100-plus category one-hour record of 24 kilometres and 251 metres until he broke his own record at the age of 102 years riding 26 kilometers and 927 metres in one hour.
VBOBZ TIL: That Alfréd Hajós was a Hungarian swimmer who won two gold medals in swimming at the 1896 Athens Olympics. He went on to compete in the 1924 Paris Olympics 28 years later winning a silver medal for architecture, making him one of only two Olympians ever to have won medals in both sport and art.
xV7D1 TIL that lodestones (natural magnetic stones) are very probably made when a lightning strikes ferrite stones ; a scientist proved it by sending a small rocket containing this type of stone into a storm cloud and the stone returned magnetic