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TIL that the US Postal Service is eliminating mailboxes in new communities. All new communities must have central mailbox clusters like apartments have.

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4kpw6 TIL that the USA started a project 1938 that hired 450 unemployed clerks to write 28 volumes of higher mathematical functions.
lorYA TIL NASA officially banned consuming Alcohol in space in 1972 after sherry was proposed for Skylab meals, but it never really went away. “NASA will tell you there is no alcohol aboard the ISS” says astronaut Clayton Anderson. “As a person who lived there for five months, I’ll tell you that’s bogus."
XEAxQ TIL A mouse utopia experiment with unlimited food and water caused them to not breed, or carry pregnancies to term, violent tendencies, and isolation. The ones who isolated themselves avoided the violence but lost all social skills and stopped breeding all together.
x5lD TIL in sign language your name is an individual hand movement designed by yourself
gEW4 TIL in Kyoto, Japan there are five temples that have blood-stained ceilings. They use the floorboards from a castle where warriors killed themselves after holding off against an army for eleven days. You can still see footprints and outlines to this day.