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TIL train attendants on the Shanghai-Beijing bullet train are required to smile while showing eight of their front teeth.

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gr574 TIL of Ida Dalser and Benito Albino Mussolini, Benito Mussolini's first wife and son. Fascist agents sought to destroy all traces of their relationship with the future dictator and they both died in asylums where they had been forcibly interned.
6E19X TIL that depending on the situation, a mass of fire ants can act as either a liquid or a solid.
XELwj TIL Of the metronome of Leningrad. During the Nazi siege of the city they installed 1,500 loudspeakers that constantly played the sound of a metronome. A slow rhythm meant safety and a fast rhythm warned of an air attack.
6E07 TIL that the Toyota MR2 had to be renamed in France, as the pronunciation of MR2 sounds similar to the French words for “It is shitty”
k7DB TIL there was a lost chapter in Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” that had nine children originally in the factory alongside Charlie, his mom accompanying him inside, and features a room called the Pound and Cutting Room that kills two of the kids