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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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w1r6 TIL that the owner of the world’s largest flag, Thomas Demski, had to take down the “Superflag” after neighbors complained that it flapped too loudly. The flag is 505 x 225 feet in size and weighs 3,000 pounds.
WxZo TIL Social Security does not contribute to the National Debt
GZ4N TIL Angelina Jolie sold the first pictures of her biological children for a total of 23.7 million dollars. She donated it all to charity.
b61K7 TIL King Richard's III body who died in the battle of Bosworth in 1485 was discovered under a parking lot in 2012 using DNA from a 17th-generation descendant
m1P7p TIL that Peter Gabriel's only US #1 single ("Sledgehammer") knocked his former band Genesis' only US #1 single ("Invisible Touch") off the top of the charts in 1986.