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TIL Larry Ellison founder of oracle owns 98% of the sixth biggest Hawaiian island, Lānaʻi

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wLBlY TIL The Washington Monument’s many blocks are held together by just gravity and friction. No mortar was used in the building process.
yVOY8 TIL that the myth that vitamin C cures/reduces colds was started by aging two time Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling, as he was convinced taking large doses of the vitamin would make him live longer and could even cure cancer
rRDpx TIL that voyager 1 and Pioneer 10 are first and second most distant space crafts from earth. And since both are moving on the opposites sides of solar system, it also makes them two man made objects farthest from each other.
rRn4x TIL Australian singer Allan Caswell sued Sony, claiming song 'Christmas in Dixie' by US band Alabama copied Caswell's 1979 theme song to women's prison TV soap opera 'Prisoner', but lost
R6Y1 TIL: Texas has the highest rate of repeat teen pregnancies in the country.