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Apr 11, 2020
TIL that it's actually illegal for companies like FedEx to ship "non-urgent" letters unless the customer pays at least six times the value of USPS postage.
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Mar 28, 2020
TIL that the reason there are tags on mattresses that say "Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law" is the result of laws that require that the contents of the mattress be listed on the label. These laws were passed in a time when many mattresses were filled with a variety of undesirable contents.
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Mar 06, 2020
TIL the creators of Curious George fled Paris on homemade bicycles just hours before Hitler's army invaded during WWII. The Reys decided they wanted to bring several in-the-works manuscripts with them and managed to pack five in their meager belongings. One of them was the first Curious George book
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Feb 28, 2020
TIL During the Cold War the US considered airdropping enormous condoms labeled “Medium” onto the Soviets, to demoralize them against an anatomically superior American Army.
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Feb 12, 2020
TIL St. Bernard rescue dogs never carried brandy barrels. The trope comes from an 1820 painting done by a 17 year old.
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Nov 07, 2019
TIL that the fruit, orange, was named before the color, which was commonly referred to as “yellow-red.” Hence why people with orange hair are called “redheads” and not “orangeheads.”
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Sep 03, 2019
TIL that before and during the American Revolution, the English, both in England and in the colonies, mostly spoke with a rhotic accent, meaning they pronounced the r in words, like in today's General American accent.
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Aug 13, 2019
TIL we call people with red hair "red heads" as opposed to "orange heads" because the phrase has been around longer than the colour orange. The colour orange was described as red up until the 1500's when the first reference of orange in the English language can be found.
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Aug 12, 2019
Til After Nike released Air Jordan sneakers in 1985, the NBA banned Michael Jordan from wearing them because it's colours didn't match his team's uniform. Nike supposedly paid the fine of $5000 the NBA charged Jordan each game so he would continue wearing them.
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