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

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Pa6E TIL a Spam text message stopped a suicide bomber New Years Eve 2010.
RJoa TIL of the ‘Radium Girls’ who worked in a factory where they worked with luminescent radium. Not knowing it was dangerous, they oftenpainted it on their lips and teeth for fun. They began to develop radium necrosis, causing their jaws to rot and develop disfiguring tumors, and eventually died.
QNa8k TIL the Emperor Nero was so esteemed in the empire’s eastern provinces that he was used as a benchmark for later rulers—Vespasian was found lacking in comparison.
m1OPE TIL the MLB uses an average of 84-120 balls per game, equating to approximately 900k per season, to the tune of around $10M.
ep4wg TIL that McKinsey kept helping cigarettes and tobacco companies sell more as late as 2021 when it finally ended their relationship