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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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ygv8 TIL that “The Legend of Bagger Vance”, a movie about a golf game, is actually a modern-day rendition of the Bhagavad Gita, an ancient sacred Hindu text.
JY9vB TIL the Queen of England is not the Queen of Canada or any other independent commonwealth nation. Although the position is held by the same person (Queen Elizabeth II), each country's monarchy is separate and legally distinct.
b6o7a TIL of Félix Faure, a French President who died while receiving a blowjob. A ship named after him also went down.
8xl8 TIL if you don’t identify as an “extrovert” or “introvert,” you might be an “ambivert.” An ambivert is moderately comfortable with groups and social interaction, but also relishes time alone, away from a crowd.
69PE7 TIL that Svante Pääbo, the 2022 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, is the son of Sune Bergström, who is also a Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (1982).