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TIL when college football teams traveled by train, Auburn students would literally grease the local stations tracks before Georgia Tech games, causing the train to overshoot the station and forcing the Tech players to carry their luggage for miles.

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M0JB TIL that French schools are banned from serving ketchup with French foods.
R7rL6 TIL that the very first Medal of Honor recipient, Pvt. Jacob Parrott, received the honor in 1863 after stealing a train just north of Atlanta and riding it north to the TN border. Along the way, they destroyed track switches and cut telegraph lines, severely limiting Confederate communications.
a8gro TIL although chopsticks have supplanted spoons for eating rice in China and Japan, Korean people continue to use spoons to eat rice and alternate back and forth with chopsticks during a meal
Z8Mla TIL Feeling that "Star Trek: Nemesis" would finally be his big break, Tom Hardy took his role very seriously. When it failed commercially and with fans, he spent the next several years battling alcohol and suicidal thoughts.
LkXRr TIL there's a max height that water can be sucked up a straw: 10 meters. At 10 meters, a perfect vacuum is created at the top of the straw, and water will begin boiling spontaneously.