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TIL that on average, 1,300 trains derail every year in the US, with a peak of 9,400 derailments in 1978.

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wG18 TIL that in 1971 a small group calling themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into a FBI office in Philly, stole over 1000 documents, exposed the extreme surveillance program COINTELPRO, and then sent these documents to the press, leading to the FBI shutting it down.
OD1 TIL Stalin once said to Winston Churchill, “God is on your side? Is He a Conservative? The Devil’s on my side, he’s a good Communist.”
4Qxw TIL that the Vatican broadcast its public approval of Pokémon in April 2001, claiming that the game was based on “intense ties of friendship” and lacked “any harmful moral side effects.”
GGEJ TIL Italians are growing an outdoor cathedral, its roof & walls made of soaring branches
avbN TIL that a drunk broke into Arlington National Cemetery at night in Dec 1982, had a heart attack, fell onto the JFK Eternal Flame and was subsequently burned to death