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TIL of The Hackney Mole Man who was evicted from his house in 2006 after he had secretly hollowed out a web of tunnels and caverns, some 8m (26ft) deep, underneath his London home, ultimately putting the neighbourhood at risk. He denied this, saying: „I tried to dig a wine cellar.“

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