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TIL that pensioners in the UK over the age of 80 who claimed a state pension before 2016 receive a massive 25p week increase 'in recognition "of the special claims of very elderly people who on the whole need help rather more than others”'

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oBZmY You obviously can’t see it when you gaze up at the night sky, but Earth has a whole lot of junk floating around in orbit. There are all kinds of reasons why debris ends up orbiting Earth and many of the objects are discarded pieces of other spacecraft or long-dead satellites which have no use to anyone. Sometimes these objects crash into each other and create even more, smaller pieces of space junk which can damage active satellites and even pose a danger to astronauts.
E1rnd TIL bout Emma Haruka Iwao, a Japanese computer scientist who this year broke the record of most digits of Pi calculated, at 31.4 trillion.
yQeOV TIL Michael Bay had Megan Fox audition for Transformers by filming her washing his Ferrari in a bikini. When later asked about the footage, Bay claimed to have misplaced it.
OoKE1 TIL The US Department of Agricultural uses M-44 "Cyanide Bombs" to control wildlife population
9YMdD TIL as production of Toy Story wrapped up in 1994, Pixar writer Andrew Stanton asked his coworker's during a brainstorming session, "What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn off the last robot?" 14 years later he answered his own question with the movie WALL-E in 2008.