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TIL a man named Dennis Hope exploited a loophole in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and claimed ownership of the Moon and has since sold plots of it to over 6 million people, including celebrities and former presidents.

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1e6X TIL the film Wag the Dog, a film about a president who creates a fake war to cover-up a sex scandal, was release one month before the Lewinski scandal broke.
16wyD TIL A manga series by the name of Cooking Papa (no relation to the game series Cooking Mama) is one of the longest running in japanese comics: it was published from 1985 to 2021 with a total of 157 volumes.
D8ke TIL in Germany, it is illegal to contact/email an employee on their vacation days.
j6jbj TIL The summit of Mount Everest is not the farthest point on Earth away from the Earth's center. The summit of Chimborazo, a volcano in Ecuador, holds that designation due to Earth's slight equitorial bulge.
kOK5W TIL: Robert Moses who built bridges across his parkways low in order to "restrict the use of state parks by poor and lower-middle-class families," who did not own cars and would arrive by bus