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TIL that Scrabo Tower was built in Northern Ireland to honor land owner Charles Stewart the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry because of his kindness to his tenants and servants during the Potato Famine. His effort to ease their suffering was rare in 1840’s Ireland during the famine.

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oB4kW TIL about Hell, a village in Norway that has a grocery store, gas station, a fast food shop, and a retirement home. Until late 1995, the European route E6 highway went through Hell and across the Hell bridge, so you were literally able to drive on the Highway to Hell.
7881r TIL that the NYPD has a special beekeeping unit that was established in 2010 when beekeeping became legal in the city. In the last few weeks, they've relocated over 40,000 honeybees to orchards around the state. They most recently relocated 8,000 bees who swarmed 3 World Trade Center.
EgOdP TIL By the 1700s, aristocrats started eating tomatoes, but they were convinced the fruits were poisonous because people would die after eating them. In reality, the acidity from the tomatoes brought out the lead in their pewter plates, and they actually died of lead poisoning.
d8QLZ TIL the red grapefruit comes from a 1950s gov nuclear program called "Atoms for Peace" where they would mutate crops with radioactive material. In these "Gamma Gardens" ones grown close to the radioactive source died, but ones farther away turned red
R7vb6 TIL Ross Lebeau, 24, was charged with possessing almost half a pound of methamphetamine. 2 field tests also yielded positive results. However, later it was found to be cat littler. It was to keep the windows from fogging up.