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TIL the Supreme Court overturned a ban on 'virtual child porn' back in 2002.

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X7JQ TIL an undercover Israeli agent armed only with a .22 stopped a group of terrorist attacking an aircraft with grenades and AK47, After securing the event he was arrested and put to trial in Switzerland
nWE4r TIL with a "Constant Acceleration" space ship, at 1G acceleration you could travel the diameter of the milky way (105,000 Light years) in a short 12 years.
QNWgd TIL sleep helps clean our brain. Or in the words of the journal Science, “Observations showed that when mice sleep, channels between neurons in their brains expand, allowing cerebrospinal fluid to flush out detritus, such as proteins that in human beings are associated with Alzheimer’s disease.”
1aMb7 TIL that there is a tree that legally "owns itself" and the land within 8 feet of the tree
xYLB TIL that a Spanish woman claimed ownership of the Sun in 2010, using a loophole in the Space Treaty of 1967. Spanish courts validated her claim and she proceeded to charge companies that use solar energy. In 2015 she sued ebay after her account was blocked for selling plots of land on the Sun.