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TIL that the owner of the field where Teletubbies were filmed flooded the hill to stop tourists trespassing.

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a8ORb TIL in 1979 researcher John Merritt placed a photographic memory test in publications across the US. He estimated that roughly 1 million people took the test & of that number, 30 wrote in with the correct answer. However, when he visited 15 of them in their homes, not one could duplicate the feat.
LbKP TIL of a homeless man in NYC who would regularly order an expensive dinner at a restaurant and refuse to pay for it in order to be sent to prison where he would receive 3 meals a day and a clean bed. He refused to commit more serious crimes to get longer sentences as he did not want to hurt anyone.
R5n4Q TIL: Require 4 healthy adult guinea-pigs, 8 sheep, 8 goats for Safety, Safety & Potency Tests related to Anthrax (Pages 338, 339)
XE8Pr TIL in 1860 a group of 76 Samurai went on a diplomatic tour of the United States. They were the toast of New York.
ZpA4D TIL that war actually decreases the gap in life expectancy between men and women rather than exacerbating it