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Today I learned that placing any items (which are not USPS letters with proper postage paid) in a mailbox is a federal crime in the USA

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oBQAY TIL that Cacao trees may actually live up to 200 years. Interestingly, they produce beans for just 25 years of their lifespan. It takes about a year for a cocoa tree to produce enough pods to make just about 10 small-sized chocolate bars.
a8jY9 TIL Mount Olympus, home of the gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece, is a real mountain
MeGa0 TIL 'Golden Age' 3-D movies had a built-in intermission point around the 50 minute mark. Carbon arc rods on the projectors used for the light source could not burn for more than an hour. The intermission would last 10 minutes, enough time to re-thread both projectors and install new carbon rods.
r7Re TIL of “Montreal’s Night of Terror”, a sort of real-life Purge with bank robberies and looting, as the Montreal police went on a 16 hour strike.
D1wme TIL after the success of his Lethal Weapon script, Shane Black was asked to write the sequel. His sequel script killed off Martin Riggs and was so dark and violent, the studio never used it, but Black considers it his best. It has never been published.