15 years before the moon landing, a Chilean man claimed to legally own the moon so that he could join a social club that only admitted members if they owned property
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The description of the Moon in the notice is the best part.
“The celestial body and only satellite of the Earth, with a diameter of 3,475.99 kilometers, under the name of Moon, whose boundaries are, due to being an spheroidal body: North, South, East and West: outer space.”
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“The celestial body and only satellite of the Earth, with a diameter of 3,475.99 kilometers, under the name of Moon, whose boundaries are, due to being an spheroidal body: North, South, East and West: outer space.”
"In the notary office of Ramón Galecio in Santiago, Gajardo bequeathed the Moon to the Chilean people:
I leave my people the Moon, full of love for their sorrows."
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenaro_Gajardo_Vera