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TIL a power plant in Lanai, Hawaii generates electric via diesel trains, still on the tracks.

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NX78E TIL of wadokei - Clocks used by the Japanese until 1872, in which length of an hour changed with the seasons.
QJ4nE TIL before the Waco siege, a competing sect leader challenged David Koresh to a resurrection contest. Instead, Koresh reported him to police for corpse abuse.
woD7E TIL in 2017 a 4-yr-old girl in Siberia awoke to find her grandmother was sick and not moving. After talking to her blind grandfather, she decided to walk 5 miles alone in temperatures as low as -34°C (-29°F) over several hours to the next homestead in order to find help, which she successfullly did.
wD1P TIL That despite its fairly strong cult following, “Scott Pilgrim vs The World” fell nearly $10 million dollars short of its $85 million dollar budget - even after DVD & Blu-Ray sales.
Lkp8P TIL that Vladimir Chevchenko was the documentary maker that captured footage in the days after the Chernobyl disaster. He died a year later due to the exposure to radiation. The camera he used to film with was also contaminated and is now stored in a lead lined cask outside Kiev.