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TIL One USPS facility in Utah does nothing but decipher your bad handwriting

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d8bpE TIL that actress Jan Stirling had airfare to fly to the US but found lingerie she liked, used the last of her money to buy it, trading in the airfare for a ticket on a steamship. Midway thru the voyage she learned that the airship she had been booked on, the Hindenburg, had been destroyed in a fire.
7rPdO TIL that Devin Gaines earned 5 bachelor degrees with honors simultaneously at the University of Connecticut, averaging 24 credits a semester and 3 hours of sleep a night. He drowned in 2007 because he didn't know how to swim.
eppEn TIL the recycle looking symbol on all plastics does not mean it is recyclable
LoPQ TIL when St. Augustine, writing in the fourth century A.D., observed his teacher St. Ambrose reading to himself without moving his tongue or murmuring, he thought the unusual behavior so noteworthy as to record it in his “Confessions”.
neJwr TIL Blanks can injure or kill a person if used in close range. a known case is of actor Jon Erik-Hexum. Bored by delays while filming, he pointed a gun loaded with blanks to his head and reportedly said, “Can you believe this crap?” before pulling the trigger.