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TIL the U.S. Army Once Kept $1 Billion Worth of LSD in a Maryland Office for Some Reason ... and Then It Disappeared

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j6yRp TIL In the 1870s, the city of Liège, Belgium tried to train 37 cats to deliver the mail. It was unsuccessful.
6EOp7 TIL People are more likely to give up smoking when they live in areas surrounded by grass and trees
7rO0L TIL Lenin and Stalin once teamed up to rob a bank.
xxXD TIL that “electrocution” is a portmanteau of electric execution, created due to the invention of the electric chair ca. 1889.
XbvX TIL after the USPS began offering parcel post, numerous poor families used the service to mail their children to relatives. One girl was mailed to her grandmother 73 miles away for just 53 cents.