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#GetFact'd: French Polynesia's special mailboxes

Updated | By Darren, Keri and Sky

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Tahitian residents have boxes outside their home that look like mail boxes but are actually for French bread delivery, and the fresh loaf gets delivered twice a day.
Tahitian residents have boxes outside their home that look like mail boxes but are actually for French bread delivery, and the fresh loaf gets delivered twice a day. Image: JOSIPA KOSANOVIC / Vacations & Travel

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Until recently, French Polynesia had special mailboxes for baguette deliveries.

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Tahitian residents have boxes outside their home that look like mail boxes but are actually for French bread delivery, and the fresh loaf gets delivered twice a day.
Tahitian residents have boxes outside their home that look like mail boxes but are actually for French bread delivery, and the fresh loaf gets delivered twice a day. Image: JOSIPA KOSANOVIC / Vacations & Travel

2. 

Beaver College, Pennsylvania, changed its name to Arcadia in 2001 because anti-porn filters blocked access to the school's website.

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Beaver College, Pennsylvania, changed its name to Arcadia in 2001 because anti-porn problem.
Beaver College, Pennsylvania, changed its name to Arcadia in 2001 because anti-porn problem. Image: Quote.com

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In the 1930s, two psychologists adopted a baby chimp and tried to raise her as their own child alongside their infant son, to see if it caused the chimp to learn human behaviour. They stopped the experiment after nine months because their son actually started behaving more like the chimp. 

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This Guy Simultaneously Raised a Chimp and a Baby in Exactly the Same Way To See What Would Happen.
This Guy Simultaneously Raised a Chimp and a Baby in Exactly the Same Way To See What Would Happen. Image: H. Armstrong Roberts/CORBIS

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