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TIL Queen Elizabeth declined the opportunity to sit on the Iron Throne on set in Belfast, due to a little known rule that she may not sit on foreign thrones.

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negxW TIL about D. B. Cooper, a man who, in 1971, hijacked a plane, demanded a ransom of $200,000, got it, then parachuted out of the aircraft clutching the money somewhere over Washington state. The FBI investigation ended in 2016, but he has never been found.
PMyg TIL The genes that cause breast cancer are patented. The patent holder must be paid every time studies and research are done on these genes.
6EMow TIL The best paid athlete of all time is the Ancient Roman charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles. His winnings totaled over 15 billion in today’s US dollars.
v1e54 TIL that in 1972, artist Dieter Meier installed a commemorative plaque at the railway station in Kassel, Germany, which read: "On 23 March 1994, from 3 to 4 pm, Dieter Meier will stand on this plaque". He honored the promise 22 years later.
D17MJ TIL that in 2005 an art collector had Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses play Rock Paper Scissors to decide who got to sell his twenty million dollar collection.