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TIL the Outer Space Treaty explicitly forbids any government from claiming a celestial resource such as the Moon or a planet, claiming that they are the common heritage of mankind.

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1a6x7 TIL North and South Korea aren't unusual for the Korean Peninsula. From 698–926 CE, the Peninsula was divided into a Northern State (Balhae) and Southern State (Silla)
vKJr TIL that the U.S. is ranked 32 out of 179 countries according to the level of freedom of media and press.
6WW TIL that Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon, payed its executives millions in bonuses saying, 2010 was the safest year in their companies history.
aYgM TIL: In Wales in 1950 a man was wrongfully executed for the murder of his wife and daughter. It is the reason capital punishment is outlawed in the UK today