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TIL a Bank Of America branch was legally foreclosed upon by a homeowner after failing to pay court-ordered restitutions

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dWoQ TIL that in 1979, debris from NASA’s Space Station “Skylab” crashed in to the small town of Esperance, Western Australia. The town then fined NASA $400 for littering.
4o9o TIL in Soviet-controlled states, prisoners would get tattoos of figures such a Lenin and Karl Marx because firing squads and guards were not allowed to deface images of the USSR’s founding fathers.
a8Bry TIL A Snail Wakes Up After 5 Years of Being Glued to a Museum Card. In 1846, authorities at the British Museum glued what they thought was a deceased snail to a piece of cardboard for display. After it seemingly became unglued 5 years later, they discovered it had been alive the whole time.
6PXJ TIL babies can dream from day one (and possibly even before birth)
AJDx TIL: In the late 19th century the feminist movements in both Europe and America were decidedly anti-condom. Feminists wanted birth control to be exclusively in the hands of women, and disapproved of male-controlled methods such as the condom.