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TIL France is the second largest hip hop market in the world

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5YdBB TIL shepherds in Gascony, France traditionally wore stilts called tchangues (“big legs”) that allowed them to walk rapidly on marshy ground.
XE85k TIL about a 6th century Buddha statue found on a Swedish Island in a hoard from the 8-11th century
epeQ5 Til that the actor who played Mr Bean and Blackadder, Rowas Atkinson fist studied engineering
XpNE TIL Mary Anderson, inventor of the modern windscreen wiper was told “we do not consider it to be of such commercial value as would warrant our undertaking its sale”, when she tried to sell her patent. Many company’s went on to implement her device after her patent was expired.
4XQLb TIL the orange balls on power lines are called visibility marker balls (or just marker balls, for short), and they help make power lines more obvious to low-flying aircraft like planes and helicopters.