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TIL the Post Office Tower, then the tallest building in London, despite being open to the public and having a restaurant at the top of it, was an “Official Secret” and consequently not marked on any maps.

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4ke5J TIL that hot sand frying is a common culinary technique among street vendors in China and India for cooking chestnuts and peanuts.
GEON TIL there was a movie from 2006 called Zyzzyx Road which starred Katherine Heigl. It had a budget of $1.2 million and earned just $30 at the box office from six patrons.
d8YdZ TIL In the 1780s an Indian king named Tipu Sultan was the first person ever to effectively use Iron cased rockets against the British East India Company. Later in 1800s British adopted this technology and fought with it in Napoleonic wars
V8Nm TIL of the ‘fruit machine. a machine created by the canadian government to be able to identify gay men. it was used in the 19 50s and 60s to eliminate gays from civil service.
0wPvM TIL Lassie ran for 571 episodes and there isn’t 1 with Timmy falling into a well. TIL Lassie did though.