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TIL Postboxes have underground feet and aren't just bolted to the floor.

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wmko TIL that the term “Shotgunning” marijuana came from soldiers in Vietnam. Troops would commonly empty a shotgun, stick a smoking bowl in the chamber, and blow into it. Other soldiers would inhale the smoke coming out the tip of the barrel, passing the shotgun around.
e0X6k TIL left-handers can have poor handwriting posture because they write with a “hooked” style when trying to copy how right-handers write, but if they position the paper to their left with the bottom-right edge angled down, then their wrist and arm straightens for neater and more comfortable writing.
N7x5b TIL That Rocky, of the Denver Nuggets, is the highest paid professional sports mascot at $625,000/year.
v1d64 TIL: William Talman was the first Hollywood actor to to film an anti-smoking public service announcement. He had lung cancer when he filmed the commercial. The short film began with the words: "Before I die, I want to do what I can to leave a world free of cancer for my six children"
A5r4 TIL of the rockfish. A fish that could live up to 200 years.