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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Each Year, London Pays Rent To The Crown For Land That’s… Somewhere
Description: If you watched any of the funeral for Queen Elizabeth II, you know the UK has lots of traditions. Here's another one: once a year, sometime between about now and mid November, the city of London pays rent to the Crown for several pieces of land in what’s called the Ceremony of Quit Rents. Plus: around this time in 2013, a big typo on some coins struck for the Vatican.
The Ceremony of Quit Rents (Historic-UK.com)
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