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TIL After illegally demolishing a historic London pub that survived the Blitz, a property developer/lawyer was ordered by court to rebuild it brick by brick.

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0d0np TIL: Low frequency vibrations may explain incidents where people have reported seeing or feeling the presence of a ghost.
9wARr TIL of Marcus McDilda - a P-51 Mustang pilot shot down over Japan two days after the first atomic bombing. Tortured by the Japanese to learn U.S. atomic bomb capabilities, he told his captors the U.S. had 100 atomic bombs that would be dropped on Tokyo and Kyoto within "the next few days."
9aYD TIL that an anonymous French urban artist, Invader, has spent the last twenty years installing over 3300 Space Invaders mosaics in 60 cities all around the world.
PbyO TIL that when Nintendo remade Ocarina of Time for the 3DS, they had to build to game back up completely, as the N64 version could not be ported to the 3DS. They even purposely programmed in some of the bugs from the original to make the game as close to the N64 version as possible.
Z8Yxp TIL, In 2008, the country of Rwanda banned plastic bags and, in early 2019, banned all single use plastics.