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TIL that there are people who believe our birth certificates are actually bonds for money deposited in our names at birth, and these bonds are traded like stocks on the NYSE.

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Avmn TIL Kurt Russell was the civilian pilot who witnessed the infamous mass UFO sighting in Phoenix Arizona in 1997 (AKA the “Phoenix Lights”)
R7Wl4 TIL of Enno I, Count of East Frisia (1460-1491). His sister eloped with a nobleman and ran off with the family jewels. Believing she had been kidnapped, he followed the pair to the nobleman's castle and tried to cross the frozen moat. His armor was too heavy; he fell through the ice and drowned.
p8lne TIL Australia had a micronation called Hutt River that once even issued its own stamps, driver's license and passports. It even had a foreign office in the US. It had about 30 citizens.
nWyP9 TIL Grapple - the grape flavoured apples are defunct - and I'm heartbroken
Z9xQ TIL that Dan Schneider, the weird manager in Nickelodeon’s Good Burger, created and wrote Victorious, iCarly, The Amanda Show, Drake & Josh, and What I Like About You, making him the most successful writer/tv executive in Children’s Entertainment Television for the last thirty years.