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

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b67yZ TIL that the Bay of Fundy has the highest tidal range in the world. In one 12-hour tidal cycle, about 100 billion tons of water flows in and out of the bay, which is twice as much as the combined total flow of all the rivers of the world over the same period.
VMQV8 TIL Joshua Bell, one of the best concert violinist in the world played for free, for 45 minutes, on a violin worth 3.5 million dollars at a subway station. Over a thousand people passed by Bell, only seven stopped to listen him play, including a 3-year old boy, and only one person recognized him.
pdEO TIL: In September 1940, four boys and a dog set out on an adventure in Dordogne, France.When the boys decided to explore the hole, they slid into a deep underground chamber where they discovered the most famous cave paintings in the world- the Lascaux Cave Paintings.
R5Wa6 TIL Mariah Carey wrote a country song with Willie Nelson called “Right To Dream”
6EVkl TIL it was common practice in U.S. high schools that Male Students were Required to Swim Nude, however Female Students wore swimsuits for Modesty.