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TIL Three Yemeni men sued NASA for invading Mars. They claim that they “inherited the planet from our ancestors 3,000 years ago”. They based their argument on mythologies of the Himyaritic and Sabaean civilizations that existed several thousand years B.C.

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6B9X TIL Ted Nugent pissed and shitted his own pants to avoid the draft.
d8XBr TIL It is estimated that trillions of oysters once surrounded New York City, filtering bacteria and acting as a natural buffer against storm surges.
MeNyb TIL that the House of Representatives briefly renamed the "french fries" in their cafeteria to "freedom fries" as part of a protest at France's opposition to a war on Iraq
JY7RQ TIL during the filming of the Lord of the Rings, Christopher Lee (a WW2 veteran) corrected director Peter Jackson on the right noise a person who got stabbed in the back and die would make: it's not an "argh" scream, but an "uh" because "the breath is driven out of your body". (Video starts at 0:10)
Z85VY TIL In January 2002, while a junior in high school, Gallivan demonstrated that a single piece of toilet paper 4000 ft in length can be folded in half twelve times. She then served as a consultant and was mentioned in an episode of MythBusters in 2007.