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TIL in 1970s the USA built and tested hovertrains

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1GDd TIL that Carrie Underwood was born with a third nipple.
XEQk TIL Sylvester Stallone , at 15, was voted as “most likely to end up in the electric chair” by classmates.
vPEOL TIL Peter Pan should be out of copyright, but the UK made an exception to the law so a children’s hospital can still receive royalties from it
BrD9x TIL in 2009 Roto-Rooter released "Chilling Tales From The Porcelain Seat" - a compilation book of various unusual occurences encountered by their plumbers on the job.
kOBM1 TIL there is a philosophical concept called the explanatory gap which is used to describe the inability to describe concepts. For instance, it is impossible to describe a color to a blind person and have them accurately understand and visualize that color.