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TIL post office workers once sent a live cat through the pneumatic mail tube system in New York.

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5VVVr TIL that the James Bond Movies "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "Moonraker" strayed so far from Ian Fleming's novels that Eon Productions authorized the screenwriter for both, Christopher Wood, to write novelizations based upon the films, rather than promote the original novels.
OGV87 TIL that Canadians play a modified version of “American Football” with a 110-yard field that is wider and still has the fieldgoal post at the goal line (NFL moved in back in the 1970s)
Mp0W TIL that the current year in North Korea is 105. North Korea uses a calendar that begins with the birth of Kim Il-Sung.
p8g6N TIL of the Island of Discussion, a tiny Scottish island. Locals involved in disputes would be taken there with some cheese and whisky, and just left on the island until they'd reached a mutual agreement
R7Xwj TIL that between 800 and 1349, the Colosseum was used as an apartment block.