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TIL that the United States Postal Service doesn’t own or operate any aircraft. Instead, they contract with companies like FedEx and UPS to help transport mail and packages

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8aNxZ TIL in 2003, a woman found a stolen painting worth $1 million in the trash on a NYC curb. She felt it "had power" and took it without knowing its origin or value. She spent 4 years researching it and discovered it’d been stolen in 1987. She got a $15,000 reward plus a % of its $1,049,000 sale price.
LEOm TIL: a study showed that Harry Potter fans “tend be more open to diversity; politically tolerant; less authoritarian; less likely to support the use of deadly force or torture; more politically active; and are more likely to have a negative view of the Bush administration.”
oJ1R TIL Louis Braille, inventor of the system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired, created the raised-dot system by using an awl, the same kind of implement which had blinded him at the age of three.
9YkG6 TIL that there is a Gary Gygax memorial where people ask to have their dice blessed by the spirit of the man who created D&D
d8kgE TIL that between the ages of 10 and 14, girls are actually taller, stronger, and heavier than boys on average.