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TIL a British spy 'fired the shot that finished off Rasputin'

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P76G TIL that by 2075, due to human efforts to reverse the damage, the Ozone Layer is expected to fully recover.
4kKy5 TIL Married With Children never had canned laughter. They filmed in front of a live audience that reacted to the scenes. That's why there's sometimes long, awkward pauses when they waited for the production team to shut down the audience.
NXGGM TIL the Carlton Tavern, based in London, was demolished by its owners after failing to obtain the necessary planning permission. The council subsequently ordered the pub to be rebuilt brick by brick. The pub was the only building in the street to survive the Blitz during WW2. It reopened in 2021.
ZKBo TIL that the firefox logo is actually a red panda, and that ‘firefox’ is another name for red pandas.
5YnLP TIL about the Dunning–Kruger effect, which is "a cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is"