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TIL the Kremlin run a British free-to-air TV channel as a “soft power” strategy to undermine the UK government.

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d8OO8 TIL that Barry George, the man wrongly convicted of the murder of UK television presenter Jill Dando, was denied compensation as a victim of miscarriage of justice for the 8 years he spent in prison as a judge deemed that he was “not innocent enough to be compensated”.
9wWZp TIL that there is a very expensive Nuclear Power Plant under construction in England that is 33% owned by China.
Mw8m TIL astronauts don’t float because they’ve escaped Earth’s gravity (they still experience 90% of Earth’s gravity), but because they are in free fall, constantly falling back to Earth
e0dw5 TIL that the Heaviside Layer, best known for having to do with reincarnating cats in the musical "Cats," is real, and is the reason why you can hear further radio stations at night.
R8ZQ TIL if Earth were the size of a Whopper (malt ball), the largest known star would have a diameter of about 35 miles in relative size