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TIL that nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America are bots

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Rka6 TIL that there is an Outer Space Treaty which states that no one on Earth can own any celestial body, including the Moon, because it is deemed as a “common heritage for all mankind”.
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epr96 TIL That the same time of the Great Chicago Fire, October 8-10, 1871, there were at least 5 other major fires that occurred in the Midwest, including the one in Peshtigo, WI which killed 1500 people. The Great Chicago Fire killed 300.