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TIL: USPS vehicles are not required to have a lincense plate.

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OnWL TIL that in 1967 a California teacher, in trying to teach his students how the German public supported the Nazi government during the 1930’s and 1940’s, created a faux-facist student movement to show them facism’s allure. In three days membership jumped from his class of 30 to over 200 students.
gMLNy TIL the word 'nice' originally meant 'foolish' or 'stupid' as it came from the Latin 'nescire', meaning 'to be ignorant'
MrKK TIL when religion was suppressed in Soviet Russia, Santa/St. Nick was replaced with Grandfather Frost, called the spirit of winter, who brought gifts on New Year’s and placed them under the “New Year tree”
PLwL TIL that there is a company that provides private flights for individuals who want to join the “mile high club”. For $425.00 you get a 1 hour flight, chocolates, champagne, and a curtain.
1Vjr TIL in 2011 the city of Portland, Oregon discarded 7.8 million gallons of drinking water, not because of the dead animals “regularly found in the drinking supply,” but because a drunk 21-year-old peed in it.