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TIL: The United States Postal Service is older than the U.S. itself and Benjamin Franklin was the first Postmaster General

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wLWyP TIL Italy, France, and Brazil are not even in the top ten highest consumers of coffee. The Nordic countries dominate coffee consumption and are all within the top ten countries worldwide. Further, Finland (the highest consumer in the world) more than doubles the annual consumption of Italy.
ADgXn TIL the first area-accurate world map was created in 1999 when Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa invented the Authagraph Projection, which divides a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transfers them to a tetrahedron while maintaining area proportions, and unfolds into a rectangle.
wokv8 TIL that in the United States, crayfish are often referred to as crawfish, crawdads, fiddlers, crawdaddies, or mudbugs. As of 2018, 93% of crawfish farms in the US were located in Louisiana. In 1987, Louisiana produced 90% of the crayfish harvested in the world, 70% of which were consumed locally.
699yw TIL that American nuclear physicist Edward Condon was targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee for being at the forefront of the "revolutionary movement" of quantum mechanics. Condon responded that he believed in scientific advancements and didn't ask if they were made by Communists.
y4l8 TIL as a response to 700 scientists expressing support for God-guided evolution, a petition called “Project Steve” was created and reached 1370 signatures. Only scientists named some variation of Steve were allowed to sign it. Less than 1% of people in the world are named Steve.