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TIL of Burj Al Babas - an abandoned $200m village in Turkey consisting of hundreds of Disney-style castles.

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p8N6N TIL about Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy, an English nobleman executed by King Henry VIII, whose wonderfully repetitive title is eclipsed only by the name of his first wife, Dousabella Tempest. (Incidentally, Henry VIII also had courtiers called Richard Rich and William Fitzwilliam.)
PYyKe TIL when future US President Herbert Hoover was born in 1874, his father announced the news by saying, "We have another General Grant at our house!", referencing the incumbent chief executive. This rural Iowan blacksmith would die nearly fifty years before his son fulfilled the prediction.
ZDLD TIL that crime in the USA has declined steadily since the 1990’s.
djwd TIL Blue Star Lines is building a replica of the Titanic, called Titanic II, it is planned to sail the original path from England to New York in 2018
b97mp TIL that the Roman Emperor Nero did not play the fiddle as he watched the Great Fire burn Rome. When the fire broke out he was at his villa in Antium, 35 miles away. When he received news of the fire he immediately rushed back to Rome to begin relief efforts.