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TIL before "Max" (Multi Amenity eXpress), a Hitachi and Kawasaki's bullet train, went into retirement after 24 years of service as Japan's last double decker 240km/hr train, it had "last run" livery. Train fans and train operator employees bid the 1,634 passenger train farewell, a customary practice

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a8xob TIL about Point Nemo, the place on Earth furthest from any and all land. When the ISS orbits overhead, the astronauts are six times closer than any other human
yQANM TIL that the average like to dislike ratio on a YouTube video is 90%; for every 9 likes, there is 1 dislike
4XV7a TIL that the creator of the Carolina Reaper (the hottest pepper in the world) claims to have unreleased peppers that are more than twice as hot.
GRg5 TIL that Ryan Holle is currently serving a life sentence without possibility of parole for lending his car to a friend who committed a murder despite having no other involvement.
4kvgb TIL that, from 1951 until a major incident in 1957, Lake Karachay in the Ural was used by the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant as a dumping ground for liquid radioactive waste and now contains 4.44 exabecquerels (EBq), causing a radiation level of 600 röntgens per hour