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TIL there is a stone in London enclosed within the walls of building, yet nobody knows its original purpose, and has been recorded in literature and maps since 1100AD.

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6p1w TIL a police commissioner who claimed he had spent hours researching sticky bombs distributed printouts about them. All of the information he gathered came from the Terraria Wiki.
rpW0 TIL in Will Smith’s 1999 movie adaptation of the 1965 TV series “Wild Wild West,” the giant steampunk spider was actually pretty appropriate for the source material. The TV show has been credited as “one of the more visible origins of the steampunk subculture.”
VMBeD TIL there's a drug called Antabuse. It helps recovering alcoholics by making them very ill if they drink a small amount of alcohol.
NRvJ TIL that the clay that the London Underground’s deep level lines were tunnelled through has reached heat saturation, and parts of the Underground that were 14°C in the 1900s can reach 30°C today.
eAXb TIL Suffixes and prefixes are both kinds of affixes, but there are also nine other categories