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TIL you can mail a coconut through the USPS with no packaging, you simply need to affix an address label and proper postage.

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d86O9 TIL that the author of Leaving Las Vegas, John O'Brien, only wrote one other thing, Rugrats' Episode 37 "Toys in the Attic". He was disgusted by the editorial changes. 2 weeks after signing the rights of the novel to be made into a movie he shot himself.
YmNG TIL that a guy died in 2012 after being hit by two cars. He had apparently been trying to create a bigfoot hoax by wearing a ghillie suit and walking on a highway.
n6pG TIL The doctor who discovered that hand washing prevented the spread of disease was thrown in a mental institution for his crazy ideas.
nexnW TIL on May 24, 1996, a drive-in theater in Canada was destroyed by a tornado when the theater was scheduled to show the 1996 disaster movie ‘Twister’. In ‘Twister,’ a scene parallels the exact event of the theater destruction by a tornado during a showing of ‘The Shining.’
x4Zg TIL Game of Thrones has brought more than $100 million to Northern Ireland’s economy