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TIL the British invaded 9 out of every 10 countries that exist

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jNL6v TIL of the Northern European Enclosure Dam (NEED), a proposed solution for protecting Northern Europe from rising sea levels. It involves the construction of two dams, one in the English Channel and the other in the North Sea stretching from Scotland to Norway.
D1xXv TIL the first line in the first feature-length film with sound was, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet."
9wQVX TIL that there is a British Weights & Measures Association established to halt metrication and return to full use of Imperial Units, and it publishes a biannual newsletter called "The Yardstick"
0dkAy TIL The first footprints on the moon will remain there for a million years.
6E5Z TIL on September 7, 1978, a Bulgarian Dissident Writer named Georgi Markov was waiting at a bus stop in London when he felt what he thought was a bug bite. Three days later he died, having been shot in the leg with a sophisticated umbrella-gun loaded with a bullet containing ricin poison.