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TIL USPS Delivery Vehicles are 30 years old + they use engines designed in the 70's that get 10 MPG

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g0b8 TIL that “Greek fire” was an effective incendiary weapon used by the Romans, which could not be put out by water. It was often used in naval battles, where it was fired via pressurised nozzles. The secrets of its production were closely guarded, and its composition remains unknown today.
0dew1 TIL that the youngest person to ever achieve nuclear fusion was just 12-years-old.
aJjA TIL 1.5 million bee hives, delivered from all over America, are required to pollinate the Californian almond orchards.
kR9m TIL the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted 12-year-old leukemia survivor Declan McLean-Pauley’s wish to blow a bunch of shit up
NN9M TIL there is a pass in Wyoming where a stream splits and half the water goes to the Pacific Ocean and half goes to the Atlantic Ocean