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TIL Man Sues NASA For Landing On His Asteroid

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OGom4 TIL Fast food chain Burger Chef pioneered kids' meals that included toys in the early 1970s, with their Funmeals, they later unsuccessfully sued McDonald's after the introduction of the Happy Meal in 1979
5VJ5r TIL that in 1939, a member of the Swedish Parliament jokingly nominated Adolf Hitler for a Nobel Peace Prize, but the nomination was cancelled.
R7BQ8 TIL that after Ukraine banned the display of communist symbols in 2015, the city of Odessa turned a statue of Lenin into a monument to Darth Vader
yVKZp TIL By recording The French folksong "Au Clair de le Lune"(9th April 1860) Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville was the first human ever to preserve his own voice and send it into the future on a phonautagram using a phonautograph.
kweW TIL Building a Toyota Prius is worse on the environment than building a regular car, due to mining of rare earth metals.