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TIL there’s an official day of kindness in Pennsylvania that honors Mr. Rogers’ favorite number, 143, which stands for the letters in “I love you.“

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8oaK TIL that 30,000 American draft dodgers went to Canada during the Vietnam War, while 30,000 Canadians joined the US military to fight in the Vietnam War
d8Bnr TIL: Paris had a pneumatic post system, where you could send your mail through tubes until 1984!
xjm0 TIL Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) members are paid a fixed multiple of the national average wage.
vN18 TIL that bees control the thickness and clarity of their honey by fanning their wings at ventilation points within the hive at varying rates to control evaporation of water.
EpDx TIL that the opposite of paranoia is called Pronoia - believing in the existence of a conspiracy to help the person.