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TIL that only 1 in every 1000 sea turtles born will survive to maturity

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9JXG TIL when a marine asked his friend to watch his house while he was gone the friend decided to do $70,000 worth of renovations on it.
9YVyr TIL A 48 year old man in Ohio was arrested because he would not stop cutting the grass at the local public park. The grass was over 12 inches long, so he decided to cut it. He claimed he was just trying to save the city some money.
a8N5N TIL in North Carolina, it is a class 3 misdemeanor to ‘use profanity on the highway’
v1Zr4 TIL that a crowd of 500 Northern civilians tried to watch the First Battle of Bull Run. Among them was a US congressman. He was close enough to the battle that, during the Union retreat, he was captured by Confederate infantry. Upon his release, he wrote a best-selling book about his imprisonment.
loLda TIL that exactly 190 years ago, The Indian Removal Act was passed, allowing U.S. President Andrew Jackson to grant Native American tribes unsettled western prairie land in exchange for their settlements within the borders of extant U.S. states, thereby clearing the way for further white settlement.