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TIL that a Japanese train barks like a dog and snorts like a deer in order to prevent collisions with animals on the railway

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Yvgx TIL when Catholics were persecuted in England in the 1500s, priests holding secret masses would hide from search parties in “priest holes,” secret chambers within the house. As searches could last week, sometimes the priests starved or asphyxiated.
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