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TIL Red bricks from St Louis are of very good quality, and brick thieves sometimes rip apart buildings to take their bricks.

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V0lZ TIL that 70% of the land in England is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror’s army.
rR1Pd TIL Ivan Mishukov, a Russian boy who was raised by a pack of dogs from age 4-6. His pack defended him from police 3 times before they tricked the pack and captured him.
4XYK5 TIL that in England prior to the mid-17th Century, Christmas was a twelve-day festival, and included the burning of the Yule log and playing traditional games. The Comwellian Revolt abolished Christmas, and the Industrial Revolution eroded the customs in communities which tried to hold onto them.
odeR TIL in the 1800s it was common practice for museums to fix sculptures that had broken-off noses by creating & attaching a plaster replica. Today, Copenhagen’s Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum removed over 100 plaster noses, to give their sculptures a more pure look, & put them on display as a Nasothek.
GYraN TIL: Singer/songwriter Christopher Cross once filled in on guitar for Ritchie Blackmore at a Deep Purple concert when Ritchie fell ill from a flu shot.