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TIL John Snow's influence helped create the modern sewer system

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OoKK7 TIL that in 1923 the USPS instituted a requirement that all delivery addresses feature a mail-box or drop-slot to reduce the time that mail carriers waited at each door.
5LkQ TIL that the Columbine shooters were neither bullied nor unpopular at school.
yVZX8 TIL Peter Dinklage once fronted a 90s “Punk-Funk-Rap” band called Whizzy. And recorded a 1995 demo tape titled “Dear Lynette” with the band.
OGPML TIL about Tom Bryon the male adult film star who has over 3,200 videos accredited to him. In a study done at the end of his 30+ year career, it was determined he had recorded sexual relations with over 1,127 different women.
XNV6 TIL about the Rosewood massacre which was a racially motivated massacre of blacks and destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida.