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TIL that King Charles III and the British Royal Family own the most land in the world, including 90% of the land in Canada.

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XEbyR TIL that in 2004, John Hutcherson drove home drunk with a friend hanging out the window. He sideswiped a telephone-pole support wire, decapitating his friend. He continued home, parked in the driveway and went to bed. A neighbor found the headless body the next morning.
78adZ TIL about Oliver Pollock, the man who created the US dollar sign (and went broke funding a war)
X0pK8 TIL about the Henokiens, an association of companies that have been continuously operating and remain family-owned for 200 years or more, and whose descendants still operate at management level. It counts 54 members
x6rLo TIL about Duncraig railway station in Scotland. Opened in 1897, it was supposed to close in 1964 as part of rail network restructuring. However, it reopened in 1976, after local train drivers refused to acknowledge the station's closure for the intervening 11 years. The station is still open today
NpyM TIL that in Saudi Arabia the weekend is Thursday and Friday. Some business leaders want to switch to a Friday-Saturday weekend to match other Middle Eastern countries, but religious conservatives don’t want to share a weekend with Israel.