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TIL: Michigan has the only floating post office in the United States. It’s called the J.W. Westcott II. It operates out of the Port of Detroit and delivers mail to crew throughout the Detroit River.

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e0ll4 TIL in 2001 two deaf men were stabbed in a Florida sports bar when a gang member mistook their sign language for gang signs.
BrZjW TIL in 1989, then Prime Minister of Japan Sōsuke Uno resigned after a geisha revealed she had an extramarital affair with him. The key of the scandal wasn't morality, but that he had failed to properly provide and support his mistress with an appropriate amount, and was branded as a stingy man.
P9AO TIL that Japanese Macaque monkeys in 1953 started washing their food before consuming it. They now evolved to seasoning it!
neGlY TIL a man in 2002 found a way to crack the lottery in the US state of Michigan using math and probability. He figured out that if he bought a certain amount of tickets that he would certainly make a profit.
W7Ra9 TIL that in 2020, a Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Rick Morgan pulled over an SUV driven by a five-year-old boy