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TIL there is a 6 inch column of land and air in California that legally belongs to nobody

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OJWa TIL many Nordic Europeans have an Allele called CCR5 Δ32, which makes them immune to HIV/AIDS
R7GW4 TIL that after 20 years in a coma, a man was claimed to be aware and suffering from locked-in syndrome. These claims were proven to be a hoax.
jNAAX TIL The FBI kept a file on Stanley Kubrick because Admiral Arleigh Burke accused Dr. Strangelove of being "detrimental to the Nation"
b6O4N TIL about the Angola Prison Rodeo, the longest-serving prison rodeo in the U.S. One event is “convict poker,” where a bull is released with the sole purpose of unseating poker players, and the players must resist the urge to run away in order to win.
9YnNB TIL the 'Kerala School' identified the 'infinite series'- one of the basic components of calculus - in about 1350. The discovery is currently - and wrongly - attributed in books to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz at the end of the seventeenth centuries.