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TIL The United States is the only country in the world where property owners own the rights to the underground resources beneath their property

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WkVO8 TIL there is an french delicacy in which an ortolan songbird is caught in a cage, forced to gorge on grain, drowned in cognac, and then consumed while covering your head with a napkin to hide your shame from god.
YO0B TIL that NASA named the treadmill that is located on the ISS, COLBERT after Stephen Colbert and is the only piece of NASA engineered equipment in space that is named after a living human being.
Wk898 TIL Radar was developed as a consequence of the urgent need to counter Nazi bomber attacks. The British Radio Research Station was asked to investigate a radio-based "death ray", but found it was more practical to use radio to detect enemy aircraft
lVNN TIL Psychiatrists have redefined “Pathological Grooming” such as skin-picking, hair-pulling, and nail-biting as similar to OCD, and they are considered often to be virtually uncontrollable.
woVXW TIL that the old cartoon character Simon Bar Sinister's name is a double pun: "Bar" in ancient Hebrew names means "son of," and a "bar sinister" in heraldry is used to denote a bastard.