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TIL that Siemens manufactured 69 trains powered by Cummins engines.

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858G TIL the record for surviving the longest without food or liquids is held by someone who was forgotten by three policemen in a holding cell for 18 days
mxyrY TIL Soviet gymnast Elena Mukhina, widely touted as the next great gymnastics star until 1979. Her coach rushed her recovery from an injury and pressured her to perform a dangerous move (the Thomas salto), which caused her to break her neck, leaving her a lifelong quadriplegic. She died at 46 in 2006
KOpv4 TIL of the Inughuit of northwest Greenland, the world's northernmost people. When contact was made in 1818 they had been isolated for several hundred years and were completely unaware of the existence of other humans.
njJ9 TIL A Microsoft researcher has come up with a great algorithm to depixel pixelart.
b9jvQ Today I learned that World of Tanks partnered with Belavia to make a World of Tanks plane