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TIL that the phrase “going postal” is derived from a series of incidents from 1986 onward in which USPS workers shot and killed managers, fellow workers, and members of the police or general public in acts of mass murder

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gMeaX TIL Ted Kaczynski, who is often referred to as the unabomber, has an I.Q. of 167 and attended Harvard before he went on to kill 3 people and injure 23 others by sending bombs via the postal service.
156r TIL there is a patent troll company that claims ownership on WIFI sharing. It has being suing small businesses and hotels for a couple of years.
R5ZNa TIL that autorevolvers exist. A marriage of revolvers and semi-auto pistols that use both a cylinder and recoil to recock the hammer. Examples include the Landstad and Mateba.
GwnJ TIL the original Mortal Kombat was based on a failed game inspired by Jean Claude Van Damme; they kept the JCVD character and named him Johnny Cage. (Also: MK Fatalities led to the creation of the ESRB rating system.)
mxMaR TIL Comedian writer Billy Domineau wrote a spec script for Seinfeld called "The Twin Towers" that is set in the days following 9/11