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TIL that card payments company Visa has a secret datacentre with the modern-day equivalent of a medieval moat to protect it: hydraulic bollards in the road can stop a car going 50mph, while cars going faster will spin out of control around a hairpin bend that will send them into a drainage pond

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lo6lB TIL that there is a small café in France that sells coffee to rude customers for €7 while polite customers get coffee for €1.40.
x6pb TIL Sets on “The Phantom Menace” were built only as high as the tops of the actors’ heads, however Liam Neeson was so tall (6'4) that he cost the set crew an extra $150,000 in construction.
oYlr TIL: Two psychologists were paid $81 million by the CIA to advise on and help implement torture.
aMo TIL, the actual span of time that was supposed to have lapsed in the movie Groundhog Day was around 10,000 years.
Eaax TIL that cows brutally murder about 16.5 people each year. “The CDC estimates that about twenty-two people are killed by cows each year, and of those cow attacks, seventy-five percent were known to be deliberate attacks”