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TIL Mail carriers can be fired for not delivering junk mail.

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4g6g TIL that the last surviving Civil War widow didn’t pass away until 2008. She married an 86 y/o veteran when she was only 19.
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oRka8 TIL that the creator of the Pringles can, Fredric Baur, had his ashes buried in a Pringles can when he died in 2008.
1QB4 TIL of Jeffrey Stockbridge, a photographer who takes pictures of prostitutes and drug-addicts from Kensington, a neighborhood in Philadelphia known for its drug abuse.
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