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TIL Citizens of the UK have the right to see CCTV footage of themselves and get a copy within 40 days of asking for it.

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lD5B TIL Bobby Bonilla, a former baseball player, agreed to be bought out and defer his $5.9 million contract in 2000, so that the New York Mets would pay him $1.19 million every year from 2011 to 2035, totalling $29.8 million for a year he didn’t even play.
GN0g TIL Dalia Dippolito, the woman sentenced to 20 years for hiring a hitman to kill her husband in 2009, is currently still only on house arrest 5 years later. Despite everything being video recorded.
b9x5p TIL in Victorian times, the cheapest form of accommodation available was a “penny hang”. You could literally pay a penny to sleep over a ROPE. This was commonly used by drunk sailors who had spent all of their money and is the origin of the term “hangover“.
1a0eP TIL that the deepest underground subway station in the world is Arsenalna on Kiev Metro's Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line at 105.5 metres. It takes approximately 4 minutes to reach the bottom via two sets of escalators.
VMRp TIL That the recent Japanese Earthquake shortened the day by 1.8 microseconds and shifted the Earth’s axis by 6.5 inches.