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TIL: A small village in Austria (1100 citizens) has its own small MRT (1,3km)

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w1OW TIL an Islamic religious authority blamed women who dress immodestly for causing earthquakes. In response a blogger organized Boobquake, an event where 200,000 women wore immodest clothing in a light-hearted scientific experiment to produce an earthquake.
WkknA Dust storms on the surface of Mars wouldn’t be so damaging since the atmospheric density is so low (density of Martian air is only 1 percent that of Earth).
v1kBK TIL: In Poland in 2010, a 90-ton WWII-era locomotive was propped-up vertically as a memorial sculpture. Artist Andrzej Jarodski titled it "Pociąg do Nieba" --The Train to Heaven.
jkRM TIL of Neal Loving; an African American who learned to fly in the segregated 40’s, founded his own flying school, designed at least 5 aircraft, flew one on an international tour, taught aviation mechanics and did it all after losing both legs in a glider accident.
P1MNw TIL that paleontologists have identified an "Anal Chimney", or a tube to separate the anus from the mouth on ancient fossils, that evolved after creatures ate too much of their own feces...