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TIL That mail was delivered 7 days a week, despite arguments from Churches and Organized Labor, up until 1912

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1xxV TIL that Alice Wadsworth, President of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, argued in 1917 against granting women the right to vote in part because “It would be an official endorsement of nagging as national policy.”
mxNaR TIL: the CEO of Charles Schwab often conducts interviews over breakfast, asking the cook ahead of time to slightly mess up the candidate's order. He judges their reaction as a test of their character.
5YPyk TIL The iconic whip featured in modern Zorro films (1998, 2005) originated from The Gay Blade (1981) in which Zorro is replaced by his flamboyantly gay brother who goes by the name Bunny Wigglesworth who swapped out the previously iconic sword for a whip.
PBmV TIL Martha Stewart was in a relationship with Anthony Hopkins and broke up with him after watching Silence of the Lambs, saying she was unable to avoid associating Hopkins with the character of Hannibal Lecter
R71o6 TIL Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune all have ring systems