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TIL that Amtrak has been losing money for 43 straight years

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7rlNx TIL Only once in Oscar history have two performers won an Oscar for playing the same character.Brando won in 1972 for playing Vito Corleone and two years later Deniro also won for playing the same role. If Joaquin Phoenix wins for playing the Joker, he and Heath Ledger will become the second example
a8kVZ TIL: That hot water can cause cancer
8X7Z TIL That there was a plan to overthrow the United States government for its crimes upon the native Mexican and Indigenous population as well as the brutal forced slavery upon Africans in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
deR9 TIL it is legal in 25 states for police to detain persons and request such persons to identify themselves, and arrest them if they do not.
e0kmL TIL: The first death in WWII was Franciszek Honiok, a German of Polish descent. The Gestapo murdered him and left his body at a radio station that the Gestapo, dressed in Polish uniforms, attacked. The body helped "prove" Polish aggression to justify the Nazi's invasion of Poland the next day.