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TIL: King Charles III and the British Royal Family own 6.6 Billion Acres of land equivalent to one-sixth of the surface of the earth. Locations include London, rural Britain, and more than 90% of the land in Canada.

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QBY6 TIL that on July 4th, 2012, San Diego had planned a 17 minute firework show but it lasted less than a minute when all the fireworks discharged simultaneously.
0d6ly TIL the Allais Effect refers to the allegedly unexpected behavior of pendulums which is observed to occur only during a solar eclipse
8aPOP TIL the 5th of October to the 14th of October of 1582 never happened because the Gregorian Calendar skipped those days to compensate for yearly drift from the Julian calendar
pYeW4 TIL the 1970s hit "No Sugar Tonight" was inspired when BTO singer Randy Bachman was fearing a street confrontation with a biker gang. The biker's girlfriend suddenly drove up and yelled at him for not watching the kids and taking out the trash, and there would be "no sugar tonight".
Mel87 TIL that the most mass a planet can have is ~10-13x the mass of Jupiter. After this point, it's own sheer gravity begins to cause nuclear fusion and the body is classified as a brown dwarf (also called a failed star).