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TIL that I Love Lucy (American TV show) was the first television show to be rebroadcast…. The 1st Rerun

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Egvjw TIL that "alienation of affections" (the fact for a third to damage a marriage) is a tort available in Hawaii, North Carolina, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Dakota and Utah
YQKr TIL that Royal Mail, the postal service in the UK, operated a tiny underground metro just for shuttling letters between eight London post offices
wdn1 TIL: Color-Coded Plastic Ties Tell You Day Your Bread Was Baked, blue for Monday, green for Tuesday, red for Thursday, white for Friday, and yellow for Saturday.
1a0m4 TIL that the world's oldest independent bussiness was the Kongo Gumi Japanese construction company. After 1,428 years, it finally lost it's battle to debt, being forced into liquidation in 2006.
v19r4 TIL, U.S Navy pilot David Mccampbell set a United States single mission aerial combat record of shooting down nine enemy planes in one mission during the Battle of the Leyte Gulf on October 24, 1944, while flying the F6F Hellcat. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions.