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TIL there's an island in Scotland owned by Tibetan Buddhists because the previous owner had a dream in which the Virgin Mary told her to give it to them.

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grMY9 TIL Brazilians don't believe that the Wright brothers invented the airplane. Instead, they believe that Brazilian aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumond, was the true inventor.
78wor TIL women spend just as much time checking out other women's chests as men do.
vPbL4 TIL that Enzo Ferrari chose not to get too close to his drivers, out of fear of emotionally hurting himself, after the death of Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari in 1955. Later in life, he relented his position and grew very close to Gilles Villeneuve, who would also die driving a Ferrari in 1982
5Y8rD TIL of Justo Gallego Martinez, a 90+ year old man who built a cathedral for the last 60 decades using only scrap material he could find near the building site
PGdL TIL that, as of the 2016 playoffs, no Vermont high school graduate has ever played in the NBA.