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1aaOr 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.
Yp40A TIL about the huge luxury houseboat industry on the massive rice paddy network in Kerala India
Y70aW TIL The tides and the full moon played a critical role in the timing of the D-Day Invasion of Nazi-occupied France
5V0mR TIL that bananas emit antimatter.
OGJd7 TIL the exact ingredients of herbs and spices used to flavour vermouth are kept secret by manufacturers