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TIL The land that the TV show “The Teletubbies” was filmed on, was flooded by the owner because of the volume of people who came to see it after the set closed for good.

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VMGV0 TIL that Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka was so obsessed with his former lover Alma Mahler, widow of composer Gustav, that in 1918 he commissioned a life-sized fetish doll that he wished to 'embrace'. He was dissatisfied with the doll but did several paintings of it. Eventually, he beheaded it.
e0kQb TIL Lloyd Robertson is the longest-serving network news anchor in television history!
0wX8A TIL that Robert Hill, a Jamaican entertainer, was driving when a police car ran a red light and hit him. He took video of the Jamaican police coming into his house and threatening him not to seek damages. He was later shot by the police, who called it a "shootout", after releasing the video.
wQv7 TIL a woman tried to use a fake million dollar bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at Wal-Mart and expected $998,325 in change
awvgM TIL that the longest ship ever built, the Seawise Giant, is longer than the Empire State Building is tall. The ship could reach up to 20 mph and it took 5.5 miles to stop from that speed and the ship had a 2 mile turning circle.