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7yWL TIL of Mary Fields, aka “Stagecoach Mary,” a 6 ft, 200 lb former slave who, at age 60, was hired by the U.S. Postal Service as she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of horses. She never missed a day of work, and when the snow was too deep for her horses, she carried the mail on her back.
Y71dZ TIL in 1969 Ted Conrad embezzled $215,000 from a bank in Ohio & proceeded to evade capture for the remaining 51 years of his life. He became 'Thomas Randele' & settled in Massachusetts. Described by authorities as a deathbed confession, in 2021 he told his wife & daughter who he was & what he did.
j6xKR TIL in 1916 Germany set off one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever in New York harbour, killing four and damaging the Statue of Liberty
Y9jd TIL a muscle of the hand, palmaris longus, is absent in 14% of the population. Some people can even have it in one hand and not in the other.
6E87Y TIL that due to the threat of a one million dollar budget overage Warner Bros. Studio gave up production of the film 'Home Alone' to 20th Century Fox. The film went on to gross 300 million dollars, shattering box office records of the time.