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TIL that a US federal law, still in existence, permits any US citizen to take possession of any unclaimed island, anywhere in the world — as long as the island has deposits of bird poop on it.

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VBWjG Today I learned that the comedy folk band 'The Lancashire Hotpots' were forced to change the title of their song "The Beer Olympics" due to copyright claims by the IOC. They then renamed the song "The Beer International Non-Profit, Non-Governmental Sporting Quad Yearly Event."
BDW TIL the Nautilus traveled under North Pole, and let us all know for certain no land is up there
VM604 TIL that of the 21 people executed for witchcraft in Iceland, 20 of them where male and only one was a woman.
kJVx4 TIL that the youngest person to jump off the golden gate bridge to commit suicide in 1945 was a 5 year old little girl named marilyn demont. She was influenced by her father who jumped in seconds after. without protest she climbed over the railing and without looking back, jumped.
KOE4a TIL that Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the heliocentric solar system (making the sun the center of the solar system instead of earth) from his death bed because he was aware of the controversy it would cause and the danger it proposed to him. He was right.