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TIL UPS drivers wore green uniforms when they started in West Germany because the locals associated the "brown shirts" with the Nazis.

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e04dk TIL about Queen Isabella of Valois, who was married at 6-years-old and widowed at 11. She reportedly had a close platonic relationship with her husband Richard II and was heartbroken when he died, refusing attempts to force her to remarry as she was 'in mourning'.
9n8D TIL in 1908 Teddy Roosevelt approached the Smithsonian Institution with an idea. He would collect specimens from Africa to have sent back for display and would be of unique value. The “unique value” he was referring to was the chance to acquire specimens shot by the president of the United States.
kJBaW TIL that former First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson is a direct descendant of Pocahontas.
xVjZ5 TIL the founder of IKEA, Ingvar Kamprad, was so frugal that he would regularly pocket salt and pepper packets at restaurants, reuse teabags, and drove a 1993 Volvo. He was worth $58.7 billion at the time of his death
1xvX TIL MIT researches have developed the world’s toughest tongue twister: Pad kid poured curd pulled cold.