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TIL there are 101 acceptable 2 letter words in scrabble.

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epwY4 TIL that it's the Swiss - not the Japanese, or the Indians - who travel the most by rail, per capita, in kilometres. Who would have guessed?
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wLVvP TIL until the 1980s all freight trains in the USA and Canada were required to have a caboose with a crew. They were replaced by the "end-of-train device" which detects and reports any problems to the engineer, ending an era in railway history.
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