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TIL of the Bolvano Train Disaster which claimed the lives of more than 500 people in 1944. After the train became stalled in a tunnel, the passengers and crew succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning when the locomotives attempted to continue and filled the tunnel with smoke.

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neEYP TIL that the U.S. state of Minnesota is the longest-reigning subnational body in the US/Canada to not vote conservative in a federal election, longer than all other 49 U.S. states and the 10 provinces of Canada
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