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TIL Before the year 1913, it was perfectly legal to mail a baby.

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5YVNB TIl that in Welsh folk legend, corgis were a gift from the woodland fairies, and that the breed's markings were left on its coat by fairy harnesses and saddles.
E1YEo TIL during WWII, the US extracted accused Nazis from Latin America and put them in internment camps. But most were innocent, and some were actually Jews who had fled the Holocaust. They were all interned together, Jews trapped in American camps with Nazis who would harass and beat them.
KOX8a TIL Mouse's shotguns in The Matrix were working models that fired 900 rounds per minute. It used a unique cam-driven design invented by movies armorer, John Bowring.
xPd0 TIL J J Abrams made a deal with Valve to make movies of Half-Life and Portal
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