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TIL The National Hockey League doesn't own the Stanley Cup, it only has exclusive rights to award the Cup.

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pYvpZ TIL There was a rumor that Richard Gere stuck a gerbil in his rectum.
QJDEL TIL Discover Magazine was created when Time editor noticed that magazine sales jumped every time the cover featured a science topic and interpreted this as a considerable public interest in science
9wY6M TIL of the 1925 dystopian novel 'Berlin Without Jews'. In the book, a far-right nationalist political party takes power and expels all Jews from Germany, while society at large does nothing to stop them. When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the author committed suicide.
Ypwgd TIL the Darien Scheme in 1698 was Scotland’s sole attempt at colonization. The effort failed but cost £400k (£71m inflation-adjusted) – about 20% of the nation’s capital. It crippled Scotland’s economy and was a major factor in its Act of Union with England in 1707, thus forming the United Kingdom.
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