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TIL There are pictures over 100 years old that are in full color taken with a special camera from all over Russia.

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GYXe4 TIL The British town of Berwick-upon-Tweed was, due to a bureaucratic error, left out of the Crimean War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and Russia. Upon Berwick's eventual signing of a peace treaty 110 years later, then-Mayor declared: “Tell the Russians they can sleep easy in their beds.”
pYYMA TIL that after a thief stole the Lone Ranger's custom Pearl Handled Colt Pistols from the actor Clayton Moore's luggage, he was caught by the police and sentenced to one month in jail and 600 hours of shoveling horse manure at the police stables.
EAGP TIL under southern Africa there’s an anomaly where the Earth’s magnetic field is reversed, which might be a sign that the entire planet’s magnetic field might reverse again
pnPA TIL that there is a full contact Jousting World Championship title that is fought for every year, often resulting in serious injury
VMrPp TIL that the Emperor Fountain at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, was named in honour of a potential visit by Czar Nicholas, was designed to be higher than the one at the Czar's palace at Peterhof, and reportedly reached a height of 300ft through a gravity fed design.