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TIL of the Da Silva family from Brasilia, whose members have 6 functional digits in each hand.

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epRl6 TIL that the Yellowstone Park "Zone of Death" is a legal loophole in a small part of Yellowstone Park. A man was tried for an elk's murder in the Idaho section. The Sixth Amendment guarantees a fair trial by a jury in the area, but no jury can be assembled as nobody lives there, making crimes legal
x68Vw TIL that there is a pharmaceutical company in Denmark that has a higher market cap than Denmark's entire GDP
kNRE TIL a family with property overlooking Area 51 refused a $5.2 million offer from the government to buy their land. So a judge took their land away from them and gave it to the Air Force.
p8olb TIL Tom Morello, the front man of Rage Against the Machine, is a Harvard Graduate
oKJW TIL the Nazis formed a plan in 1939 to counterfeit the British pound to cause hyperinflation. Using a german concentration camp, they manufactured $132 million GBP, which is the equivalent of $6-7 billion modern-day pounds. They partially succeeded.