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TIL there is £80m worth of unclaimed premium bonds in the UK

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78ogP TIL there is a massive 3.5km (2.2mi) abandoned underground airbase on the border of Croatia. The largest project of the ex-Yugoslavia
epwLg TIL Pedro Rodrigues Filho, one of Brazil's most prolific killers. Having killed between 71-100+ criminals as a vigilante (including his father), he was given a the maximum sentence in Brazil of 30 years. Filho now has a successful YouTube career with 250k subs
dDLw8 TIL that juries have brought attention to societal issues through verdicts
wLA9Y til that in the 1952 Olympics, Luxembourg won a gold medal which was so unexpected that the band did not know their national anthem and instead had to improvise and played gibberish.
XElBk TIL that before becoming a household name on television shows such as “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Lou Grant,” actor Ed Asner worked on the assembly line at GM.