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

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gLG8 TIL that octopuses have been observed learning how to dismantle Lego structures and open child-proof caps on medicine bottles.
4DOJ TIL Amazon created an entirely new font called “Bookerly” specifically designed to be easy to read on Kindles and other digital screens.
X0GAk TIL actor Shane West served as touring vocalist for the punk rock band Germs from 2005 to 2009.
9Y97D TIL that the name "Triscuit" comes from "electric baked biscuit", which was a marketing ploy in 1903 to make wheat crackers appear modern. At the time, no other crackers were baked electrically.
kOOZW TIL that there is a group of monasteries in Greece called Meteora that are carefully perched on top of cliffs several hundred metres high