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TIL that UK's Crown Estate has a total value is about $16.5 billion (Apr'16). This includes 263,000 farmed acres, half of the U.K.’s shoreline and almost all the seabed to the 12-mile territorial limit. Queen Elizabeth and family receive 15% of all the money, almost $400 million annually.

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P1a7J TIL the first ally soldier to step onto the beaches of Normandy during the D-Day invasion was Leonard Treherne "Max" Schroeder Jr. He made it out alive and was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart. He died in 2009 at the age of 90.
EKoW TIL that in 1991 a woman was kept “alive” although she was braindead because she was pregnant. The baby was born alive.
WkbMB TIL about the Baedeker blitz, when the Nazis used German guidebooks to British towns (Baedeker was the Lonely Planet of the day) to select bombing targets that would demoralize the British.
BkEr TIL the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, and possibly Indian alphabets are all derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs via the Phoenician alphabet.
d8bo9 TIL that Bernie Madoff’s wife was allowed to keep $2.5M of stolen money