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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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