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TIL the main vehicle for the US Postal Service, the Grumman LLV (Long Life Vehicle), gets an average fuel economy of 10 miles per gallon.

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PYdKe TIL there were minstrel shows in the 1800's where the performers were actually African-Americans. They would act like white people's stereotypes of blacks at the time to please white audiences.
X8XQ TIL that a business in Texas still uses a 1949 IBM 402 punched card computer. It still runs all of its accounting work (payroll, sales, and inventory) through the IBM 402.
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eprNk TIL that modern smartphones have 5,000 times the processing power than the most powerful supercomputer in the world in the 1980s.