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TIL that Amtrak has been losing money for 43 straight years

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lol1V TIL that every single engineer in the Titanic died because they were working and fighting to keep the lights on so everyone else could get out.
NXnw6 TIL that a Swiss railroad is inside a mountain. Three of Jungfrau Railway's five stations are inside Jungfrau mountain. The last stop, Jungfraujoch, is so high (3,454m / 11,332') above sea level (but still inside the mountain) that it has a scientific observatory next to it.
KOm5R TIL in 1976 a film called "All This and World War II" was released, which included a soundtrack of Beatles covers by various artists such as Peter Gabriel, Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne, Elton John, David Essex, Leo Sayer, the Bee Gees, Frankie Laine, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and Tina Turner.
0E55 TIL after professional golfer Ben Hogan threw himself across his car to cover his wife during a head-on collision with a bus, the doctors told him he might never walk again, let alone play golf. He went on to win the US Open the following year.
9QEB TIL that occasionally people who are born without a lens in their eye can see some of the Ultra-Violet spectrum.