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TIL there is a farm in the middle of Tokyo's Narita airport. As the owners refused to move, the airport was built around it.

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1ardX TIL: Swedes use the term 'Curling Parents' for overprotective parents who - as in the ice game - sweep out all trouble in front of their kids
78abx TIL that the first trademark legislation was passed by the British Parliament under the reign of King Henry III in 1266, which required all bakers to use a distinctive mark for the bread they sold, Bakers’ Marking Law was enacted.
e8m6 TIL that an illegally corked bat was confiscated during the 1st inning of a 1994 Indians vs White Sox game and stored in the umpire’s room for later examination. A teammate crawled 30 feet through the stadium ductwork and swapped out the bat, and an investigation led by a former FBI agent ensued.
Mexb0 TIL of the Frog Boys, a group of South Korean children who went missing while frog hunting. 11 years later their bodies had been discovered, with police concluding that they died from hypothermia. However, a later autopsy revealed them to have been murdered, one with a shotgun blast to the head.
WewY TIL Khrushchev lunched in IBM’s cafeteria in 1959 and admired the concept of self-serve dining - which was so unknown in the Soviet Union - that he went home and instructed Soviet factories to build cafeterias which mimicked what he’d seen in San Jose