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TIL that due to the inverse square law, the terrestrial TV and consumer radio signals which leave our planet become indistinguishable from background noise after just a few light years

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1aaOr TIL that UK's Crown Estate has a total value is about $16.5 billion (Apr'16). This includes 263,000 farmed acres, half of the U.K.’s shoreline and almost all the seabed to the 12-mile territorial limit. Queen Elizabeth and family receive 15% of all the money, almost $400 million annually.
ADwRw TIL yeast is a fungus.
edmJ TIL that certain types of contact lenses worn only during sleep reshape your cornea. After taking them out in the morning, your vision is as good as it would be while normally wearing contacts or glasses. Studies also suggest the lenses slow or stop myopic progression in children.
kWQ4 TIL in Japan there is a family that has run the same hotel for nearly 1,300 years (founded in 705) or 46 generations
b9MyZ TIL the most expensive "vegetables" are hop shoots, costing up to €1,000 a kilo, which require manual harvesting and are only harvested in Belgium and the Netherlands