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TIL that in 1959 the USPS attempted to deliver mail by cruise missile and successfully shipped cargo from New jersey to Florida in 22 minutes

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x6bvb TIL People stick their tortoises in the fridge during winter.
a8gro TIL although chopsticks have supplanted spoons for eating rice in China and Japan, Korean people continue to use spoons to eat rice and alternate back and forth with chopsticks during a meal
OO54 TIL after Myers had completed providing the voice for Shrek, and after an rough cut of the film, he asked to re-record all of his lines in a Scottish accent. It was so good they took $4m worth of animation out and did it again.
wk6P TIL The movie script for “Thirteen” was written in six days and was originally intended to be a comedy.
P1Wye TIL that during a live firing demonstration 25 spectators were killed and 71 wounded when the pilot mistook them for dummies