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TIL there were electric cab companies in the 19th century.

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6EeEQ TIL that cruise ships are required to carry body bags and to maintain a small morgue in the event of a death onboard
epd1k TIL that the rapper Puff Daddy co-headlined an AIDS fundraiser following a charity basketball game at the City College of New York with fellow rapper Heavy D that ended up getting oversold and resulted in a crowd crush that killed 9 people and injured 29.
JYBvB TIL that the Indian Government refused to pass on meteorological information about a cyclone to their rival, Pakistan. The cyclone went on to kill over half a million people in East Pakistan (Today Bangladesh).
X06e8 TIL the original yellow power ranger was a guy and not a girl, but most of the fight scenes in the American version are copied the original Japanese show and that's why the yellow ranger doesn't wear a skirt and has a bulge.
OG647 TIL about Don Black, a white supremacist, member of the American Nazi Party, Grand Wizard of the KKK and founder of the neo-nazi, Holocaust denial, homophobic website Stormfront; he was arrested by the ATF in 1981 while attempting a naval invasion and armed overthrow of the government of Dominica