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TIL a Spanish woman claims she legally owns the sun and is trying to charge people for the use of the sun.

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Lkyxd TIL The last transit of Mercury until 2032 occurs on 11 November 2019. The tiny black disc of Mercury, just 10 arc seconds across, will take about five and a half hours to pass across the Sun
r18e TIL in 1994, a man walked into a Washington middle school and killed his former teacher. 11 years later, the killer won $250,000 from the school district after it was revealed that the teacher sexually abused him.
l7vxr TIL about the Cuban Rafter crisis resulting in 35k fleeing to u.s. by makeshift rafts. Resulted in 16k deaths (1994)
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Z8aKR TIL that in 1856, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech so captivating that every single reporter forgot to take notes. There is no transcript of the speech in existence and the content could only be guessed at. The speech is known as “Lincoln’s Lost Speech”