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TIL that your US mailbox is the property of the US postal service; no one else is allowed to use it. FedEx exists because of a bike courier exception for "extremely urgent" mail. USPS has forced Equifax to pay a $30,000 fine for FedEx use that was not extremely urgent.

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GY9kG TIL that 'The Hobbit' crew used up all of the gold paint in Australasia for creating Smaug's lair. They used up so much paint that they had to actually pick more up from Germany.
LQD0P TIL: 2 of 920 people survived the Jonestown Massacre. Hyacinth, who hid under her bed and Grover Cleveland Davis, who was 79 years old and hard of hearing. He slept unknowingly throughout the death assembly.
4ko5R TIL in the 1992 World Series, the US Marine Corps carried the Canadian flag into the stadium upside down.
KYvaJ TIL most worms are actually a bright pink, but look brown because of their habitat and diet.
QAL9 TIL that the word bedlam originated from Bethlehem. Shortened to Bethlem and pronounced Bedlam by the locals, the English hospital was known for housing primarily “lunatic” patients and is the oldest psychiatric hospital in the world.