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TIL of UK farmer Tony Martin, whose house had been broken into so many times, that he was able to predict when the burglars would strike next, and shot and killed one.

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EkKx TIL Gobekli Tepe is a megalithic temple in Turkey that predates Stonehenge by 6,000 years.
LgQr TIL Because vinyl was so scarce and expensive in the USSR, bootleggers figured out a way to print records on old discarded X-ray films.
j6jXp TIL that Australia’s Mount Wingen has been burning for 6,000 years. A lightning strike or brush fire ignited a coal seam there around 4000 B.C., and it’s been smoldering ever since.
Ob1X TIL saying “What can I do?” with a Russian accent actually means “I’ll find vodka” in Russian.
RVp7 TIL that in 1978 a lone pilot flying in Australia reported to air traffic control that he was being accompanied by an aircraft above him. Asked to identify the aircraft, he radioed “It isn’t an aircraft”. His plane disappeared and has never been found.