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TIL the origin of the phrase “government cheese”

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7yWL TIL of Mary Fields, aka “Stagecoach Mary,” a 6 ft, 200 lb former slave who, at age 60, was hired by the U.S. Postal Service as she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of horses. She never missed a day of work, and when the snow was too deep for her horses, she carried the mail on her back.
ZpaXo TIL that there is a place called California, Pennsylvania, USA and that it was established before the state of California, USA.
4X9bw TIL that in 1977 a small town in West Virginia named Vulcan asked the USSR to help them rebuild a bridge after being denied funding by the local government. The WVA government gave them the money less then an hour after the story broke and a soviet journalist was sent to investigate.
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J1XDm TIL that in the '70s and early '80s, women in Syrian Defense Companies' special forces were forced to bite the heads off live snakes during training, while children in paramilitary programs were trained to stab live puppies to death.