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TIL Destroying a mailbox carries a fine up to 250,000 dollars and up to 3 years in jail

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69pW8 TIL that Sam Houston is the only person to have served as the governor of 2 U.S. states, with him serving as the 6th governor of Tennessee from 1827-1829, and as the 7th governor of Texas from 1859-1861.
B7Bx TIL that maple syrup is essentially anti-freeze for trees.
grV89 TIL that in 2012, Maryland manufactured and distributed a new license plate to celebrate the War of 1812. 800,000 of these plates include a link that promotes a Filipino gambling site.
7ngZ TIL That though the brain may only consist of 2% of our entire body mass, it consumes a fifth of a persons metabolic energy.
b9G1N TIL that in 1951 Matt Ingram was convicted of “reckless eyeballing,” the improper looking at a white person, with sexual intent, in North Carolina. His accuser testified that he had scared her when he looked at her from a distance of about 75 feet. Ingram spent two and half years in prison.