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TIL that ancient Babylon had suburbs. A 539 B.C cuneiform clay tablet stating: "Our property seems to me the most beautiful in the world. It is so close to Babylon that we enjoy all the advantages of the city, and yet when we come home we are away from the noise and dust"

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9wY5Q TIL in the US, courts ruled that under US Labor Law, disruption of property rights was "necessary in order to safeguard the right to collective bargaining." The right to a labor union and workers rights had some prerogative over certain aspects of property rights in relation to employer's property.
rRoV1 TIL On “Win Ben Stein's Money,” money won by contestants was paid by the producers. Money left over at the end of a season was given to Stein. If the total amount paid out exceeded that budget, the production company paid the excess so Stein was never in any danger of losing his own money.
l7NYV TIL of the Boynton Bicycle Railroad. It was a monorail with two vertically aligned rails(one wooden), double decker passenger cars, propelled by steam engines that ran for two years in the 1890s in Brooklyn, New York.
8mMV TIL When two New Zealand trawlers came across a Japanese submarine that outweighed them by more than 1000 tons, the two Kiwi trawlers kept ramming it until they beached the much larger sub. This allowed the U.S. to capture key Japanese codebooks
XZ7k TIL a species of tiger moths effectively jams bats’ echolocation by producing up to 4,500 clicks per second. This jamming is the most effective prey defense against bats ever documented, reducing their success rate tenfold.