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TIL the US post office uses no tax dollars to operate. That’s why mail is running during the Government Shutdown.

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yVnWV TIL Robert Duvall turned down the role of Woodrow Call in Lonesome Dove to play Gus McCrae, calling it one of the best roles he’d ever seen. His performance was so memorable that fans sometimes weep when visiting Gus’s mannequin, taken from his coffin scene, now displayed at Texas State University.
vM5B TIL, that to circumvent the “chicken tax”, a retaliatory import tax by the US on commercial vans, Ford imports its Turkish-made vans as passenger vans, with seats and back windows, only to immediately remove them once they arrive in the US
7rQPx TIL the name "California" comes from a 16th century romance novel about a mythical island populated solely by black women warriors armed with gold weapons, ruled by a Queen named Calafia.
J1wWj TIL that Flash memory got its name because the process of erasing the device called to mind the flash of a camera.
rNmVo TIL: 2nd POTUS Adams never owned a slave and declined on principle to use slave labor