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TIL A one-way trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway involves crossing 3,901 bridges

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R5BL4 TIL that Leonardo da Vinci was a strong 15th Century animal rights activist and a devout vegetarian way before it was hip to be so.
xnx5 TIL that in 1996 small town Spanish Fork, Utah accidentally booked a Rage Against the Machine concert and citizens promptly lost their shit. “I’m concerned there might be a riot or something. It kind of scares me, that’s why I’m getting out of here,”
69WBm TIL Michael Jackson's "Billy Jean" was a real stalker who sent Jackson multiple letters claiming he was the father of one of her twins, culminating in sending him a handgun and an invitation to a murder-suicide. It was also based on multiple women who harassed his brothers while in the Jackson 5.
WkngA TIL nerve cell proteins can be genetically engineered & remotely controlled by radio waves and magnetic fields, by attaching them to an iron-storing protein called ferritin
nYEd TIL there’s a counterargument to the use of Occam’s razor in the medical profession called Hickam’s dictum. It states that “patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please.”