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TIL 3 men from Yemen tried to sue NASA for invading Mars, claiming they had inherited it from their ancestors 3,000 years ago.

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Wky88 TIL George Washington established the 'Contingency Fund for Foreign Intercourse', which funded spying operations in Europe. By 1793 it consumed 12% of the federal budget.
nGV7 TIL that there is a real criminal called Dr. Chaos who is currently being held in Federal supermax prison in Colorado for causing 28 power failures and hoarding large amounts of cyanide.
kVO5 TIL a Chinese beggar whose hands were ruined in an explosion spent a decade designing a new type of two-handed calligraphy. The result was so impressive that China’s largest font maker gave him a design contract with 50 years of royalties and helped to get him off the streets.
aWOy TIL that anyone over the age 18 can perform a marriage ceremony in the state of Alaska.
R7Le4 TIL that in the 2018 Hawaii false missle alert, PornHub offered an unusual sociological report. After the alert was sent, traffic on PornHub dropped 77%. Nearly an hour after people were informed of a false alarm, PornHub traffic jumped to 48% more than normal from people relieving themselves.