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TIL personalty is all property that is not realty (real estate).

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KOO6w TIL a hypothetical structure called a Matrioshka Brain could have enough computational power to simulate an entire alternate universe.
vPPWD TIL Our Sun can make a total of 80 different elements: helium and then everything from carbon through polonium, but nothing heavier. For that, you need a supernova or a neutron star collision. Of all the types of naturally occurring elements here on Earth, the Sun can make about 90% of them.
D1wRY TIL that only two women have ever attempted to assassinate a US President, and both attempts were made on Gerald R. Ford within 3 weeks of each other.
dDEXr TIL that the BGP, the protocol responsible for routing information across the internet is known as the three-napkin protocol because it was originally sketched out on the back of "three ketchup-stained napkins"
9ORM TIL On Valentines day Roman priests use to kill goats and take their skin, soak them in blood and go around streets slapping women and crops with them in order to make them fertile for the year