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TIL The Queen of England is the legal owner of one sixth of the land on the Earth’s surface

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8e47Z TIL the American Amusement Machine Association has created a color-coded content rating system for arcade games. Games for all ages are labeled green, while games with “mild” and “strong content” are labeled yellow and red respectively.
VMQ8Q TIL that composer John Williams has been nominated for 51 Academy Awards (winning 5) second only to Walt Disney who has 59. Williams has been nominated in six different decades, receiving his first for Valley of the Dolls in 1968 and his last for Star Wars: The Last Jedi in 2018.
e04eb TIL there is a free, 24/7 Crisis Line that you can TEXT to talk to someone about depression, anxiety, eating disorders, bullying, suicidal thoughts, and more. [US: 741741 - UK: 85258 - Canada: 686868]
J9rl TIL that the ancient Greek geographer Pytheas from Massalia (modern Marseille, France) sailed to Great Britain and possibly Iceland as well, and was the first scientific thinker to connect the phases of the moon with the tides
R70bj TIL that last year a bug-loving 8-year-old in Canada who was teased at school for her unusual hobby ended up co-authoring a research paper after the scientific community took her under their wing.