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TIL A couple bought a home in an Edmonton suburb in 1974 after hearing talk about a potential train line from their realtor. The 13km light rail connecting their community to downtown in 30 minutes finally opened in 2023

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kOR91 TIL in 1980, Monica Myers, mayor of Betterton, Maryland, died while checking her towns sewage tanks. She fell in and drowned in 15ft of human waste.
dDRAB TIL that there are three main types of galaxy - elliptical, spiral and irregular - but that there is a huge range of variation within these three categories.
VMkBm TIL In honor of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the Soviet Union named a crater on Venus after Christa McAuliffe, who was supposed to be the first teacher in space but died in the disaster.
M7DWm TIL in 2017, Visa offered up to 50 small food and restaurant vendors $10,000 if they would agree to stop accepting cash.
XErPP TIL that MRI is actually NMRI - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Nuclear is dropped because people would be less likely to trust the technology.