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TIL Up until 1915 it was legal to mail a baby by US Mail

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W9gd TIL at the 1945 Postdam Conference, Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin couldn’t agree on who should enter the door to the meeting room first. After much debate, they settled on an agreeable plan: They switched to a different room so they could enter at precisely the same time using 3 separate doors.
W7Ldd TIL that support beams were installed backwards on the 2nd reactor at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant because the single set of blueprints for the two reactors was not physically flipped when installing the beams in the 2nd reactor.
OGe1e TIL that misheard words that change the meaning of a phrase or lyric are called a Mondegreen
9mMm TIL of a character in Sesame Street that wanted to demolish the street in order to build Grump Tower, named after himself, Ronald Grump.
Xbj6 TIL Google hires camels to capture “street view” in deserts