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79.5KBeneath London exists an underground city spanning 35km of tunnels?
Chislehurst Caves is a 22 miles (35 km) long series of tunnels 100 feet beneath the surface in Chislehurst, Bromley, in the...
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9.0KIn London is a park dedicated to the otherwise forgotten heroic acts of self sacrifice
In 1900, the park became the location for George Frederic Watts’s Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice, a memorial to ordinary people who...
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13.3KThe Romans created a tax on urine
Vespasian imposed a Urine Tax (Latin: vectigal urinae) on the distribution of urine from public urinals in Rome's Cloaca Maxima (great sewer)...
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11.8KAlderney lays claim to having the best-preserved small Roman fort in Britain
An overgrown site on Alderney was only in the last decade found to be one of the best-preserved Roman military structures in...
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56.8KLondon was once home to an ancient Roman temple dedicated to the goddess Isis
Evidence for a temple dedicated to the goddess Isis was revealed by graffiti on a 1st century flagon unearthed in Tooley Street,...
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53.2KThere are at least two runic Viking inscriptions in Hagia Sophia’s marble parapets in Istanbul
They may have been engraved by members of the Varangian Guard who were an elite unit of the Byzantine Army, from the...
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11.8KThe remains of the only visible WW1 German U-Boat wreck in the UK
The U-Boat was confiscated at the end of the Great War and was taken up the River Medway along with 25 other...
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5.6KIf you linked together all the Inca roads it would almost wrap around the circumference of our entire planet.
The Inca road system was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America.
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7.2KFanta was originally created in Nazi Germany due to a trade embargo on Coca-Cola ingredients
Fanta originated in Nazi Germany due to difficulties in Germany being able to import Coca-Cola syrup during World War II from a...
