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TIL it is illegal to download the anarchist’s cookbook in the UK

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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.
e06Z5 TIL That France was still executing people with the guillotine when the first episode of star wars aired
wL6Z6 TIL Bob Marley moved near his mother's residence in Wilmington, Delaware for a short time, during which he worked as a DuPont lab assistant and on the assembly line at a Chrysler plant in nearby Newark, under the alias Donald Marley.
OojDa TIL Bob Beamon has set the long jump Olympic record in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. As of 2020, this Olympic record has never been broken.
W6EL TIL there is a 1200 acre lake that is super heated by a coal burning power plant, even in zero degree temperatures the water never dips below 50 degrees.