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TIL the Indian Railways transport over 23 million people everyday. For comparison, Australia has a population of 26 million.

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xddo TIL 2005 was statistically one of the worse hurricane season in history recorded with 15 hurricanes and 23 tropical storm causing $150 billion in damage.
Y46P TIL - Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan has a net worth of $600 million, more than Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp and Tyler Perry.
ybLV TIL After the fall of the USSR, the Lithuanian Basketball team could not afford jerseys for the 1992 Summer Olympics. The Grateful Dead became their financiers.
QXja TIL two Christian monks smuggled silkworms out of China in bamboo canes. Those silkworms were used to give the Byzantine Empire a trade monopoly in Europe, which became the foundation of their economy for the next 650 years.
rxQe TIL that while filming Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the live rabbit they used for the “monster” scenes was covered in what they assumed was washable red dye. But when they had trouble cleaning it off, they had to stop filming to desperately clean the rabbit before its owner arrived.