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TIL: a Ha Ha Wall is a recessed wall that creates a vertical barrier while preserving an uninterrupted view of the landscape beyond.

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ANbOx TIL about the Tunguska Event: In 1908, an 180 foot wide asteroid exploded while entering the Earth's atmosphere in Russia's East Siberian Taiga. It presumably exploded 4 miles above the surface, killing 3 people, and felled 80M trees over an area of 830 sq miles.
4kXng TIL that Scrabble in Welsh language was not a popular game. A store in Wales was unable to sell a single copy for at least 2 years.
WXoX TIL that a man successfully “foreclosed” on a Wells Fargo office because they failed to respond to his letters of inquiry and then ignored his $1,000 small claims judgement.
dmG8 TIL that in response to her husband’s infidelity, a woman from Prague decided to commit suicide by jumping from her third-story balcony. By chance she happened to land on her spouse below, cushioning her fall. She survived, but he died.
d8D19 TIL that there is a monument to honour the almost one million (often forgotten) Allied horses who died during the First World War. Of one million drafted horses only 62,000 returned 1918.