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TIL that there’s a bus system in Adelaide AU that takes a bus from the roadway to a rail system across town, with beautiful park scenery and tunnels.

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9wKdm TIL in 2009 Burger King ran the "Whopper sacrifice" campaign, which gave a free whopper to anyone who deleted 10 friends on Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was alerting people letting them know they'd been dropped for a sandwich.
Y76wW TIL that a 14 ton component of Apollo 12 occasionally orbits the Earth (referred to as J002E3). We anticipate it will be back sometime in the 2040s and aren’t certain what will happen if it enters the earth’s atmosphere.
GAKN1 TIL Author Octavia E. Butler used "Make America Great Again" as the presidential campaign slogan for the dictator Andrew Steele Jarret in her 1998 dystopian novel, Parable of the Talents.
VDeD TIL: The Yellowstone Park bison herd (approx. 5,500) is descended from a remnant population of 23 individual bison that survived a mass slaughter in the 19th century by hiding out in the Pelican Valley of Yellowstone Park.
LQAYd TIL that after the plane crash in which Buddy Holly died, the remaining members of his band continued the tour