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TIL that in Japan there is a railway company that employs a cat as a “Super Station Master”. She is the only female employee in a managerial position

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BKdD TIL that BOSE once made an awesome suspension for vehicles that had the ability to jump over obstacles
MeoKB TIL about a Chinese businessman who hired a hitman,who hired a hitman,who hired a hitman,who hired a hitman,who hired a hitman. All six men were convicted of murder.
Lk0Od TIL Indian businessman/billionaire Mukesh Ambani has invested $31 Billion to improve India's mobile and internet infrastructures since 2011, when his daughter, who was back home from Yale for holiday and tried to submit her coursework, told him that "the internet in our house sucks".
lmON TIL in 1987, Mathias Rust, an 18 year old from West Germany with about 50 hours flying experience, illegally flew his light aircraft through Soviet airspace, bypassing their air defense systems, and landed near Red Square in Moscow.
eKj6 TIL In 1988 Ian Mckellen visited Michael Howard, then Environment Secretary, to lobby against Section 28. Howard refused to change his position but did ask him to leave an autograph for his children. McKellen agreed, but wrote, “Fuck off, I’m gay.”