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TIL the only public commercial hovercraft service in the world connects Portsmouth with the Isle of Wight

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1E7r TIL that the alternative history novel “The Man in the High Castle” features a “novel within a novel”. While the actual book is about Nazis winning WWII, the in-book novel is about an alternate universe in which the Nazis lose the war.
R7lxj TIL that a chimp, named Ham, originally from Cameroon, was sent into space and recovered alive in a test to ensure that a human being could survive space flight and perform useful functions outside Earth's atmosphere. He died at 25 and is buried at the International Space Hall of Fame in New Mexico.
m14DO TIL Croissants and Baguettes are not actually French, their origins are actually Viennese. (Austrian)
R5BLj TIL in some countries in Europe including the UK, they have to pay for a TV license
ANkR4 TIL When Enrico Fermi first split an atom in 1934, it was completely by accident. He was actually trying to create new elements by hitting uranium with neutrons. It was only in 1938 that other scientists figured out what Fermi did.