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TIL a man in Texas “bought” a $300k house for the cost of $16. This process is called adverse possession.

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R7RMl TIL Bill Murray auditioned for the role of Sulley in Monsters, Inc., but the director, Pete Docter, said that when they decided to offer it to Murray, they were unable track down the elusive actor because he had replaced his team of agents with a toll free 1-800 number. They took that to mean "no".
6j0W TIL California still has a large oil industry right in major cities like LA, but disguises the sites to look like office buildings.
R5va9 TIL the Parthenon in Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee, is a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens, Greece. It was designed by architect William Crawford Smith and built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.
NePE TIL it is illegal to release balloons in the state of Florida
pkNp TIL Female serial killers typically kill people they know for money while male serial killers typically kill strangers for sex