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TIL that Bangkok’s real name is the longest place name in the world. The name is 168 characters long and composed of Pali and Sanskrit.

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KO1eB TIL of the 1975 Moorgate tube crash, where 43 people died and 74 were injured after a London Underground train failed to stop and ran into a dead end at speed
9YMnM TIL that camels and humans are the only non-aquatic mammals that do not eat their placenta.
wAeJ TIL that most Japanese schools don’t have janitors. Instead, the children do the cleaning daily as part of the practice rooted in Buddhist traditions that associate cleaning with morality.
4kg7R TIL that in 2004, CEO of Ryanair Michael O'Leary purchased a taxi license plate for his Mercedes-Benz under the name O'Leary Cabs, enabling it to be classified as a taxi so that he could legally make use of Dublin's bus lanes to speed up his car journeys.
oRw88 TIL before filming Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, director Alfonso Cuarón asked Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson to write essays about their characters. Watson submitted a 16-page essay, Radcliffe handed in a single page, and Grint forgot to turn his in.