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TIL British abstract artist & architect Victor Pasmore designed the brutalist Apollo Pavilion for the Sunny Blunts housing estate. It became heavily vandalised & was so hated by the residents that they campaigned & nearly succeeded in having it demolished. It is now protected as a listed monument.

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neL6P TIL that Russia did not have to pay its WW1 debt because it became the Soviet Union
yVkev TIL that Skandar Keynes, who played Edmund in The Chronicles of Narnia, is the great-great-great grandson of Charles Darwin.
LkbeQ TIL that 'Keep Calm and Carry On' was produced by the MOI of British Government to be issued in the event of the Second World War. But it was never officially issued and very few original designs have remained.
ADXOw TIL there is a town of 1,500 people in Australia built entirely underground.
gyeA TIL of the Iron Pillar of Delhi, an ancient, 23 ft solid pillar of near pure iron, that has resisted corrosion due to an unusual corrosion resistant layer. It also survived a direct canon ball strike in the 1700s from Muslim invaders.