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TIL that a bank was once sent through USPS brick by brick

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OoxN6 TIL Thomas Jefferson and Zachary Taylor (the 3rd and 12th US presidents) were 12th cousins.
vJRR TIL after the Nazi’s occupied Warsaw, 80% of the city was destroyed and reconstruction efforts were guided by a series of 1700s cityscape paintings. It was later discovered the painter had made artistic “improvements” … so the rebuilt structures looked different (arguably better) than before.
N74NJ TIL: Of the United States' 2.9 million female high school athletes, only 3% are cheerleaders, yet cheerleading accounts for nearly 65% of all catastrophic injuries in girls' high school athletics and carries the highest rate of catastrophic injuries in sports.
0rJy TIL that horses can lose over a gallon of blood when they get a nosebleed.
yVk1M TIL that in 1999 there was a TV show called The Chimp Channel starring chimpanzees and orangutans that spoofed popular culture