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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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XE6OR TIL that street names follow a specific pattern. A Road connects two points. Street is a public way with buildings on both sides. Avenue is a public way often in a city, usually with trees or buildings on the side. Lane is a narrow road, often in a rural area, court ends in a circle or loop
WQEB TIL that a man was sentenced to be strangled to death in front of the parents whose children he killed and then his body would be cut into 100 pieces and put in acid, the same way he killed the children
4Xg1R TIL that President Gerald Ford stood up for civil rights in 1934 by threatening to quit his college football team, unless they let Willis Ward (African American) play against the south’s Georgia Tech. He agreed to play only after Ward asked him to, because they couldn’t afford to lose that game.
69V87 TIL that the flag commonly believed nowadays to be the official flag of Austria-Hungary was actually their civil ensign, only used by merchant ships and consulates. Austria-Hungary actually had no official flag, often flying the Austrian and Hungarian flags together instead.
e0o75 TIL in 1947 a woman with hives went to Johns Hopkins to cure her hives. She received an experimental drug Compund 1694 and not only her hives cleared up she reported that her trolly rides were free from nausea. Doctors immediately test the drug for motion sickness and Compund 1694 became Dramamine.