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TIL The British built a thousand mile, 12 foot high, 14 foot across hedge through India, no one is totally clear why.

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x6jZw TIL an animated Robocop series aired in 1988 for 12 episodes. 13 episodes were ordered but only 12 were made because the budget for the 13th funded the intended pilot for an X-Men animated series called "Pryde of the X-Men" which the 1992 Konami X-Men arcade is based on.
J1dvB TIL About Kriegsnagelung or war nails. A fund raising system in WW1 where you paid to drive a nail into a statue. There were hundreds of these and I had never heard of them. Found one in a castle I visited this weekend.
69RAQ TIL the most common videos of the February 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor were recording by dashcam.
5V5nk TIL Ancient Greek used to ostracize potential tyrants with a vote, essentially forcing them to leave the city
5YraB TIL about The World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things - a traveling roadside attraction filled with miniature replicas of other roadside attractions.