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TIL There are two Underground stations at Victoria in London that are connected and were built more than a century apart

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XE1BD TIL of the Sack of Rome in 390 BC. After the Romans were routed and the city was all but destroyed, the Romans figured their only decision was to pay the invaders to leave. It worked.