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TIL the Cavendish family owns Lismore Castle, Chatsworth House, Bolton Abbey, Holker Hall, Hardwick Hall, Compton Place, several villages, miles of river, and 70,000+ acres of land, all while receiving subsidies from British taxpayers.

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M177 TIL scientists have released millions of genetically modified mosquitoes on the island of Grand Cayman in an effort to combat dengue fever, resulting in an 80% decrease in mosquito numbers.
o0o TIL that 10 years after the final episode of The Amanda Show, AmandaPlease.com is still functional.
54BR TIL Germans have a tool which breaks eggs perfectly called a Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher.
MeGv0 TIL about the baltic sea anomaly. An object with unusual features of seemingly non-natural origin, prompting speculation published in tabloid newspapers that the object was a sunken UFO. A consensus of experts and scientists say that the image most likely shows a natural geological formation.
bDN0 TIL NASA had an accident while testing spacesuits for the Apollo moon missions, and caught it on camera. The test subject was accidentally depressurized while in a vacuum chamber, and lost consciousness and experienced his own spit boiling. The team took nearly a minute to save him from the chamber.