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TIL I learned that the ‘zip’ in 'zip code’ stands for 'zone improvement plan’

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GKDQ TIL that two Canadian schoolboys hacked into an ATM using a manual found online. It took them so long to convince the bank they were serious, they were late back to school. So the bank wrote them a note.
1aAJ4 TIL "That Charles Darwin upon discovering parasitic wasps actually questioned why a benevolent loving God would create a creatures designed to feed off of a caterpillar's body from the inside."
QNRMp TIL of the Super Chief a train that was famous for carrying start between Chicago and Los Angeles back in the day.
xVyM0 TIL that bearded vultures are the only birds that live exclusively off of bones and eat both the marrow and bone itself.
8a1OG TIL: That Serial Killer Richard Ramirez was born on February 29