Dennis Hope wanted to be rich and famous, and realized that the 1967 Space Treaty claims that "no country may ever own the Moon." So back in 1980, the genius decided that since nothing is written about "individuals", he could go to the UN and declare himself the owner of the Moon. In his mind, it should totally stick because of the technicality no one else was smart enough to think of exploiting... or something. Except (of course) the treaty did include private interests, and Hope is out of luck. If this isn't funny enough for you, to this day he keeps selling off plots of land on deeds (which are worthless pieces of paper) while he pretends the embarrassment from the UN never happened.