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TIL London only reached its pre-WW2 population level in January, 2015.

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JmwQ TIL at least one dead body is washed ashore somewhere along the River Thames in London every week.
GPWJ TIL that watching people walk was America’s favorite spectator sport in the late 1800’s.
gGX7 TIL that the Pacific Ocean is so big it has its own antipodes (two points on exact opposite sides of the earth)
9YNmp TIL Liechtenstein is so small Switzerland has invaded it 3 times by mistake. On one occasion the Swiss started a forest fire when they misfired a rocket in bad weather. Another time Swiss cadets stumbled into a Liechtenstein village and they didn’t find out until the Swiss formally apologized.
dDW7 TIL that only 2 of the contestants from Hell’s Kitchen received their promised prizes and that one, Dave, was treated like a line Cook and left shortly after.