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TIL through the “heirs’ property loophole” , a company called Adams Creek Associates struck a contested deal in which it claimed purchase of 13 acres in North Carolina’s coastal region. The problem was that the Reels family which has lived on and owned the land for generations, never agreed to this

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ANwLn TIL: There is an official world record for time travel. It is held by cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who has spent a total of 803 days in orbit around the Earth. According to Einstein's relativity theory, Sergei has traveled approximately 0.02 seconds forward in time.
yMxV TIL The inventor of auto-tune forgot to patent his idea in germany. Emagic created a similar program. Then Apple bought [Emagic], and integrated it into their Logic Pro software. his company’s reaction: “We can’t sue them, it would put us out of business. They’re too big to sue.”
pYJ0Q TIL that the U.S. uses trained Bottlenose dolphins to find mines underwater. The dolphins use their highly evolved biosonar to discover these hard-to-find mines.
D49Y TIL that there’s a rare genetic disorder that causes those afflicted to have an ‘elfin appearance’ and 'an unusually cheerful demeanor’.
WkYPL TIL Warranty void stickers have no legal standing in the US thanks to the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act