Things I Have Learned About Maine, part 2

16) USM has the second best map library in the United States. Beaton only by Harvard, which is pretty impressive.

17) The only person ever to be executed in the US for slave trading was Nathaniel Gordon, a ship's captain from Portland, Maine.

18) The first mosque in the USA was in Maine.

19) The last Shakers in the world are in Maine.

20) People in Maine - possibly in the whole US - undo their seatbelts before they turn their car engine off. I don't know why I have noticed this. I just have. Yes, I'm weird.

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