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TIL a science fiction novel from 1970 predicted the Ronald Regan Presidency

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D1jXj TIL that there are postage stamps specifically for sending postcards, and they are nearly $0.20 cheaper than letter stamps. (Context: I’m a millennial.)
KOdm4 TIL divorced people think the secret to a happy marriage is communication. People who are actually happily married say it’s not communication, it’s respect.
gG5L TIL that Annie Dookhan, a crime lab chemist in MA, intentionally mishandled thousands of samples. As a result, more than 20,000 convictions had to be dropped en masse.
oB6go TIL a meteor had fallen in the kingdom of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, and on it someone had written "The First Emperor will die and his land will be divided." When he heard this, he sent someone to investigate who did it, and when no one admitted, all the people living nearby the meteor were killed.
9wY4m TIL that wilt chamberlain had more 70 point games than everyone else in nba history combined