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TIL that France has inheritance laws that automatically give a significant portion of inheritance to each child and children cannot be disowned in the will

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v1pxK TIL: The creators of the "Golden Record" - an audio recording sent into outer space aboard the Voyager spacecraft - wanted to include "Here Come the Sun" by the Beatles, but couldn't afford the $50,000 licensing fee demanded by the band's record company.
oRKbE TIL of Tom Barlow a baseball player who after getting injured in 1874 and was given morphine by a doctor, subsequently got addicted to the substance and lost his whole career to it.
BkRW TIL the Sydney Opera House is covered in triple-glazed ceramic tiles which make it self-cleaning.
OYVe TIL that the last words of Albert Einstein were forever lost because he spoke them in German, a language that the nurse attending to him did not speak..
0w4lj Today I learned that 57% of Russians think moon landing was a hoax