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TIL Three men from Yemen, sued NASA for trespassing on Mars. They claim that they inherited the planet from their ancestors 3,000 years ago.

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7B47 TIL Google has been interested in becoming a wireless carrier like Verizon and AT&T since 2012.
5Yebr TIL of Anneliese Michel who went through 67 exorcism sessions; one or two each week, lasting up to four hours, were performed over about ten months in 75–76. Later investigation determined that she was malnourished & dehydrated; her parents & the priests responsible were charged with homicide.
vMDD TIL the pilot episode of LOST was so expensive (~$14 million) that the network president was fired for green-lighting it
LkAEV TIL in 1981 Dean Koontz wrote a book "The Eyes of Darkness". The chapter 39 it mentions a Chinese military lab outside of the city of Wuhan, where a deadly virus is invented as part of the country's biological weapons warfare programme. Owing to the lab's location, the virus is named 'Wuhan-400'.
VXgG TIL That at 14yrs old Snooker Player Stephen Hendry bought his snooker cue for £40, using this cue he won 7 world championships over 20 years until it was broken in the hold of a plane in 2003 after anti-terrorism legislation banned cues from hand luggage