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TIL that Byker Grove, a relatively grounded British teen drama set in a youth club which aired from 1989 to 2006, ended with all the characters becoming aware they were in a TV show with no free will of their own, fending off a T.Rex attack and ultimately being blasted into a void of nothingness.

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LkJDV TIL that it rains diamonds in abundance on Saturn and Jupiter. These two planets are the largest in our solar system and are filled with gas with extreme negative temperatures that under the effect of lightning produced by thunderstorms produce more than 1000 tons of diamond every year.
OoLY TIL that the English football league system has 24 levels made of 140 leagues and 480 divisions, comprising around 7,000 individual clubs (or teams). Theoretically a level 24 team can be promoted all the way to the Premier League.
grP88 TIL Finland used a lot of resources and logistics during WW II to bring the fallen to their home parishes for a proper funeral, instead of using mass graves in the battlefield.
VM9JZ TIL that Bob Seger invited Matt LeBlanc to join him for a drink right before shooting for the music video for Seger's song 'Night Moves'. LeBlanc then shot for the video while being drunk on tequila.
6Ejwl TIL In the original book Uncle Tom's Cabin, Tom was actually an honorable man put to death for not telling the location of two escaped slave women. It was only in later adaptations he was portrayed as a house negro and his name became synonymous with being a servile race traitor.