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TIL that Charles III is the largest landowner in the world, as the British crown technically owns 90% of the land in Canada. The second-largest landowner is the Roman Catholic Church.

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ep4N4 TIL that the USS Bowfin is the only submarine ever to sink a bus with a torpedo.
X06KQ TIL you need a license to play golf in Belgium and The Netherlands
8PmG TIL there are 3 power grids in the continental US, eastern, western and Texas.
A4x4 TIL: Edgar Allen Poe’s character Richard Parker who is eaten in a shipwreck in his 1838 book. In 1884 an English ship sinks and the name of the boy who is eaten is Richard Parker.
Ooo7e TIL after analyzing losses over North Vietnam in 1968, the US Air Force invested in upgrades for its F-4 jets while the Navy created an advanced combat school for its pilots: TOPGUN. The Navy saw kill ratios climb to 13:1 while the Air Force saw no improvements.