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TIL that the Emperor Fountain at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, was named in honour of a potential visit by Czar Nicholas, was designed to be higher than the one at the Czar's palace at Peterhof, and reportedly reached a height of 300ft through a gravity fed design.

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