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TIL Nixon deployed 25,000 soldiers to NYC in 1970 to deliver mail after carriers went on strike.

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x6kr5 TIL about Gary DeVore, a screenwriter, who disappeared in 1997 while night driving from Santa Fe, NM to Santa Barbara, CA. A year after disappearing, Devore and his Ford Explorer were found in an aqueduct in Palmdale, CA. Devore's hands, script and gun were missing. His death remains a mystery.
4XAk5 TIL that Disneyland has its own color called "Go Away Green"—a shade that's meant to help things blend in with the landscaping. Go Away Green is a gray-green (and kinda bluish) shade, tested and formulated to blend in well among almost anything: concrete, landscaping, the sky, you name it.
agw0 TIL we have a photograph of a man who fought in the Revolutionary War
ZpBp TIL In 1972, when Elvis Presley’s wife Priscilla informed him of her infidelity, Presley “grabbed … and forcefully made love to” her, declaring, “This is how a real man makes love to his woman.”
Oo1L6 TIL in pre-industrial times (before electricity) it was normal to get up for a couple of hours in the middle of the night, resume normal activities and then return back to sleep until morning.