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TIL the Greek philosopher Chrysippus died from laughing at his joke that nobody else laughed at

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0wgMj TIL if you find a lost wallet and place it in a USPS mailbox, it will be returned to the address on the ID found inside free of charge.
9YKA7 TIL Belgium is the world’s largest kangaroo meat importer. Sad part is that they’re taken down quiet cruelly: “Each year, about 1.6 million kangaroos are hunted and killed in particularly cruel conditions.”
oBaQL TIL the last person alive born in the 1800s, Emma Morano, lived to 117 and thrived on a diet of just two raw eggs a day
rvnx TIL vintners sold wine bricks during the prohibition with the explicit warning not to leave the juice from them in a jug in the cool cupboard for 21 days, or it would turn into wine.
1aA0V TIL While the US Dollar (Sacagawea and SBA) coins were considered failures in the continental US, in other countries that use the Dollar, the coins are more popular than $1 bills.