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TIL 48222 is the United States only floating zip code. The JW Wescott II is a boat on the Detroit River that delivers and picks up mail to passing freighters

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KOppJ TIL that in 16th-century England, the midwives' oath included not allowing the mother to falsely name the father of the child, not exchanging the child after birth, not using sorcery or incantations during the labour or delivery, and not dismembering the child or cutting or pulling their head off
E1Pr7 TIL that the dolphin brain is even more “folded” than humans’ and was this way millions of years before the first appearance of humans. Scientists often measure intelligence by the number of brain “folds.”
lo9WG TIL CBS was supposed to use the song 'One Shining Moment' after Super Bowl XXI but game coverage ran long and the music montage was cut, so they used it after the NCAA Men's Division I National Championship Game a few months later and it's now been a March Madness staple for more than 30 years.
xP17 TIL E.T. was originally planned as a horror movie - featuring aliens who can kill “by the touch of a long, bony finger”
nWEmW TIL that people with aphantasia cannot visualize or picture memories