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TIL in 2016 to a great deal of backlash, India’s solicitor general, Ranjit Kumar claimed to Indian Supreme Court that the Koh-i-noor not stolen

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m150o TIL the song "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from the 1964 movie Mary Poppins was written by the Sherman brothers. They were sued by songwriters who had written a prior song by the same name. The brothers won; however, it was discovered that the word was used earlier in 1931.
GANDJ TIL the Cayman Islands own $285.3B in U.S debt and ranks 7th in amount owned by foreign states.
6EEeW TIL the city with the highest population density in history was Kowloon Walled City at 3.2 million people per square mile, 200 times higher than that of Tokyo.
e07mJ TIL Candace Newmaker, a child with "behavioral problems," was taken from her birth parents, adopted, and placed in controversial "rebirth therapy"... she was suffocated for 70 minutes and declared brain-dead afterwards
Oyla TIL: McDonalds sells ~100 million burgers every 2 weeks and consumes ~1 billion pounds of beef annually (5.5 million head of cattle)