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TIL that in 2006, a man named Gregory W. Nemitz legally claimed ownership of asteroid 433 Eros and sent NASA a $20 parking ticket for landing the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on "his" property.

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8awXb TIL In 1997 there was a contest to win an exact replica of The Simpson's house, fully furnished. The winner could keep the home or trade it for $75,000. The winner took the money. The house was stripped of its decor before being sold.
lobBB TIL that while rare, cow vagina is a delicacy street food usually eaten in South East Asia, especially Vietnam.
9YNrD TIL if Finding Nemo was to be a scientifically accurate movie, after Nemo’s mother died, his father would have turned into a female and mated with him
e0JGk TIL of Berengaria of Navarre, the only Queen of England to have never set foot in the country. She was married to Richard the Lionheart for 8 years
D14oJ TIL, a small triangle in NYC about 27x25x27 inches was not accounted for in an eminent domain seizure in 1914. The owner installed a small mosaic which said "PROPERTY OF THE HESS ESTATE WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN DEDICATED FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES." It is still there today.