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TIL that American Fanta contains no juice

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rR1l0 TIL of the "Tree That Owns Itself" - A white oak tree in Athens, Georgia, that has legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet (2.4 m) of its base
j6jBN TIL that All of Earth's water—including oceans, icecaps and glaciers, lakes, rivers, groundwater, and water in the atmosphere—equals ~326 quintillion gallons (326,000,000,000,000,000,000). Of that, a tiny fraction, 37.5 quadrillion gallons, is in the atmosphere above us as water vapor.
VEgZ TIL that the coffee taster for Costa coffee has his tongue insured for £10m
oBROK TIL: The term “joshing ya” originated from a deaf mute con man named Josh Tatum. He succeeded in exploiting a design flaw from the US mint and made a ton of free money. He was eventually caught but acquitted of all charges! Bonus: He also caused the US Mint to cease production! I’m not joshing ya!
W70o9 TIL Graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, built a radio telescope to observe quasars in 1967. Their discovery won the 1974 Nobel Prize – for Hewish. 50 years later, Burnell was awarded $3 Million in the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics