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TIL London has an elevated system of walkways between buildings that was more or less abandoned in the 1980s.

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ZnAB TIL of the Croydon Facelift: Hair is pulled back and tied up so tightly that it pulls the face tighter. (Victoria Beckham wore the style on ‘American Idol’.) The hairstyle is also known as the 'council house facelift’ or 'Essex facelift’ in the UK, because of its association with “low class” women.
VMaJk TIL the CIA ran Project Fat Fucker in 1952, which resulted in the overthrow of the Egyptian government
lo57r TIL the end of a Ponzi scheme led to a Civil War in Albania where more than half the population had participated in various schemes.
KZWQ TIL that in 2013, British scientists claimed to have found extraterrestrial life form in Earth’s stratosphere
7r8ax TIL that technology based on the skin of poison dart frogs may solve aviations ice problem on airplane wings.