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TIL Stonehenge was once owned by a man named Cecil Chubb. Who bought it for £6,600 in 1916. Roughly about half a million pounds back then. He gifted it back to the UK shortly after.

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7lVb TIL A man once sued Pepsi after trying to buy a Harrier fighter jet with Pepsi Points
Z8JWD TIL Police almost arrested Gary Ridgeway, The Green River killer, years earlier, in 1983. A boyfriend of a victim had seen her get into his truck before she vanished. The next day, he went with her father and found it; it belonged to Ridgeway. The tip wasn’t enough to get police to arrest him.
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KOoL6 TIL of President Husni al-Za'im , who after taking over the Syrian government tried to give women right to vote, did not execute anyone during his reign and tried to make peace with Israel.