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TIL that Canadian citizens can send mail to various government offices postage free

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Ooama TIL the third season DVDs of "The Adventures of Pete and Pete" were made but mysteriously never distributed. The creators think they're in a warehouse: "It's recorded, we did commentary tracks with a bunch of the cast, there's all these special extras on it. They pressed them, we saw it. Nothing."
Kbpa TIL Milhouse got his name because it was the most “unfortunate name Matt Groening could think of for a kid”
rkro TIL Thomas Midgley Jr, inventor of CFC and leaded gasoline, who is regarded as having the greatest impact on the atmosphere of any single organism in history also accidentally strangled himself to death with his final invention.
lJEK TIL Donkey Kong, Mario, and Princess Peach are based off of characters from Popeye. Nintendo created it after they failed to obtain a license to make a Popeye video game.
4AR TIL that under the qui tam provisions of the false claims act, you can file lawsuits on behalf of the federal government for medicare fraud and you get to keep 15-30% of the final settlement.