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TIL That the United States can, and has, sued objects.

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J0ek TIL, in 1968, American tycoon Robert P. McCulloch bought London Bridge for $2,460,000 and transported it brick by brick to Lake Havasu City, Arizona
DQ14Y TIL about "Anderson's Piano", a complex systems of wires and weights that has been protecting railways in the Scottish Highlands from rock falls for over 140 years.
epj7E TIL: Disney sued to keep full rights to Marvel characters including Spider-Man, Black Widow, and more from going into the hands of its original creator's families
vVjB TIL In order to transport the Statue of Liberty from France to the United States, the statue had to be broken down into 350 individual pieces and placed through 214 crates in just under a year after the completion
KPeJ TIL, In 2001, A man was shot dead while testing a bulletproof potion. He’d asked a witchdoctor to make him invincible to bullets. After applying a potion for two weeks, a fellow villager shot him to check if it worked. He died instantly