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TIL the United States Postal Service effectively “owns” the inside of your mailbox, and can issue fines for unauthorized use of it - including the personal delivery of typically mailed items.

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10M4 TIL that in 1989 a scuba diver was sucked up by an intake pipe of a nuclear power plant, dragged over 1,600 feet, and deposited in one of the reactor cooling ponds. He lived.
4yPR TIL in Florida suffered catastrophic wildfires during 1995. Florida’s Division of forestry later discovered that the underlying problem was the cessation of controlled burning, which was stopped at the behest of homeowners.
4mdo TIL After Rocky IV release there was jokes making rounds that since rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight and alien in the fifth installment. Screenwriters Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on that joke which became the movie Predator.
O9nX TIL singer Edwyn Collins suffered a cerebral hemorrhage which left him able to say only four things: “yes,” “no,” “Grace Maxwell” and “the possibilities are endless”
oBpeA TIL Crispin Glover, who played George Mcfly in Back To the Future, is 3 years younger than Michael J. Fox who played his son Marty in the film.