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TIL Star Citizen has raised 600 million dollars from its backers

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X0YNj 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.
b6Ze7 TIL Tracy Chapman a was relatively unknown performer invited to play for Nelson Mandela’s birthday party until, due to technical difficulties with Stevie Wonder’s equipment, she was brought back upstage to play Fast Car, silencing the crowd of an estimated 80,000.
bmjj TIL that until 1987, heart surgery (and other surgeries) could be performed on babies with no anaesthesia, as it was commonly thought that babies could not feel pain
Aa7w TIL Some Catholics urged Pope Clement VII to ban coffee, calling it “devil’s beverage”. After tasting the beverage, the Pope is said to have remarked that the drink was “… so delicious that it would be a sin to let only misbelievers drink it”.
R5MQQ TIL of John Coffey a fireman, who deserted the Titanic at his hometown of Queenstown Ireland, the last stop before it headed across the Atlantic to New York.