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TIL that all US mailboxes are essentially federal property, even if you buy and install them yourself.

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QJZap TIL Mantan Moreland was almost one of the three stooges that was supposed to replace Shemp Howard after his death
R8J6 TIL Back in the 80s there was a service called Video Mailbox which allowed movie rentals through the mail to customers who paid a monthly fee with no late fees where they could set up a queue, and that had almost every movie available on VHS
0wrjR TIL that child beauty pageants are illegal in France to prevent the hyper-sexualization of young children. Punishment can be up to two years in prison.
x6Le1 TIL a tropical storm hit Long Beach, California in 1939 which is the only cyclone to make landfall in California in the twentieth century. Such events are rare in the Pacific because cyclones feed off the energy stored in warm ocean waters but weaken in the cool waters of the California Current
E17vd TIL: Fels-Naptha soap no longer contains naptha