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TIL the US Homeownership Rate Is Now the Lowest Since 1989

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5g9r TIL: During WWII the Allies developed a cheap-as-dirt pistol to be dropped over concentration camps so that prisoners could pick them up and start an uprising.
aw8XL TIL the British supermarket chain Iceland has an EU-wide trademark on their name, and take legal action against Icelandic companies that use it. The Icelandic government has applied to have their trademark invalidated, so far without success.
woLjP TIL in 1990, 2 thieves dressed as policemen stole the only Rembrandt seascape painting in existence in one of the most expensive art heists ever. The case remains unsolved today.
e0V95 TIL that the Knights of Columbus funded Catholic rebels against the secularist Mexican government in the 1920s. In response, the Ku Klux Klan sent $10,000 to the Mexican government to help them fight the Catholics.
nW5W9 TIL that golf is one of the only sports to have been played on the moon. In 1971, during the Apollo 14 mission, astronaut Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the lunar surface using a makeshift six-iron.