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

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gXe9 TIL that the first U.S flag planted on the moon was knocked over by exhaust
R5l14 TIL that the current population of Ireland (approx 7m) is still below the population recorded before in the Great Hunger of the 1840s (approx 8.5m).
ADoag TIL, actor Clark Gable fought in WW2 and almost got killed once. When word of this reached MGM, studio executives began to badger the Army Air Forces to reassign him to noncombat duty. Also, Hitler was a fan and offered a sizable reward to anyone who could capture and bring Gable to him unscathed.
GYnB7 TIL that in the mid 1800s people believed that travelling by train could cause insanity due to the high speeds.
6EE7 TIL Justin Timberlake had a company figure out his concerts’ carbon footprints and paid to have trees and bushes planted in those cities to offset carbon impact during nationwide tour [PDF]