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TIL the longest continual train rail can take you from the Portuguese coast, through Russia, all the way to southern Vietnam, covering over 10,700 miles (17k kilometers) and 17 countries in 13 days.

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GAMJ TIL that when the White House discovered that the Russians had found a way to decode human speech from the movement of glass, the window panes in the Oval Office were fitted with small mechanical “vibrators”
5b7B TIL a female minor league pitcher struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gerhig back-to-back in 1928. Her contract was voided; in 1952 MLB officially banned women, which was not rescinded until 1992.
8ObK TIL an air guitar that was claimed to have been played in a Bon Jovi concert was sold on eBay for 5.50$.
D8ep TIL that Anthony Graves spent 18 years on death row for a crime he did not commit. The State of Texas owes him $80,000 per year of false incarceration, and has evaded paying him due to a technicality on a form.
9wE7 TIL King of the Hill was cancelled to make room for The Cleveland Show.