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TIL the busiest transit hub in the western hemisphere is located below Madison square garden. (In the 2020s it also expanded to the James Farley building.)

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JYvvm TIL that cats moon people and other cats to say hello.
wo6g1 TIL that Vienna has an orchestra that performs with instruments made entirely of vegetables — and then turns them into soup!
Y7env TIL in 1992 Annette Herfkens was the sole survivor of a plane crash that included her fiancé & 28 others. Despite having 12 fractures in her hip, 2 in her leg, a broken jaw & a collapsed lung, she survived 8 days in a Vietnamese jungle on rainwater until a local officer came by & got help.
Ypr5A TIL that Twenty or more US Airmen were in Hiroshima as POWs when the Atom Bomb fell. SSG Ralph J. Neal and another Airman, Norman Brissette, survived the initial blast by jumping into a cesspool, only to die thirteen days later from radiation poisoning.
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