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Dec 30, 2019

TIL while Apple was buying rural land for a new building, one couple refused to sell their 1 acre plot of land they had originally purchased for $6,000. After rejecting every single offer, Apple just told them to name a price. They sold it for $1.7 million.

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Oct 22, 2019

TIL that gargoyles on a 15th century church in Loire-Atlantique, France, now include Gizmo and a Gremlin from "Gremlins" and the xenomorph from "Alien." The characters were added when the centuries-old church was restored in the 1990s.

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Oct 22, 2019

TIL that gargoyles on a 15th century church in Loire-Atlantique, France, now include Gizmo and a Gremlin from "Gremlins" and the xenomorph from "Alien." The characters were added when the centuries-old church was restored in the 1990s.

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Jun 19, 2019

TIL that during WWI, France built a 'Fake Paris' near its capital city to confuse German pilots.

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