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TIL How Bono from the band U2 exercised one of his newly given rights after receiving Dublin's Freedom of the City award. One of these ancient privileges was the right to pasture sheep on common ground within city boundaries. To celebrate he took lambs to graze on St Stephen's Green.

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a84VJ TIL an oil platform called Piper Alpha, located in the North Sea about 120 miles (190 km) north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland, exploded and sank on 6 July 1988, killing 165 of the men on board.
9WeM TIL that the Roman Emperor Nero bought a young boy, married him, castrated him and dressed him up as a girl at public events.
ZLlD TIL the Paris airport still runs on Windows 3.1
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