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TIL Amtrak will attach privately-owned rail cars to their trains so you can travel between points in North America.

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WkVBB TIL on Jose Fernandez's 4th attempt to defect from Cuba to the U.S., a person fell overboard. Jose jumped into the waters and saved the person. He recalled, "I don't remember much, just diving in the water and swimming towards this woman. As I was getting close, I could see it was my mother".
8a1Qa TIL that the official authority for lighthouses in England is formally named "The Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent".
4kayX TIL of the Powell Memorandum. A confidential memorandum entitled "The Attack on the American Free Enterprise System". It kickstarted a concerted effort to shift US opinion to the right and started a massive PR campaign to persuade Americans that the 'left' was bad for the average American.
4Xbr6 TIL the price of a loaf of bread has risen by 11,000% in the past 100 years thanks to inflation and will cost almost $200 next century if prices rise at the same rate.
DLXv TIL in 2010, a Canadian man rescued a newborn baby from a dumpster, only to find out he was the father.