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TIL that Siemens manufactured 69 trains powered by Cummins engines.

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Zp9w4 TIL Argentina briefly occupied California
7rRAZ TIL of a "Bezoar", the accumulation of ingested material such as hair, fur or fiber in the stomach that forms a large stone. Once prized as magical items with protective properties. There was a gold-framed bezoar in the Crown Jewels of Queen Elizabeth I as recently as 1962.
9EpQ TIL of “l'appel du vide” - “the call of the void” - that weird urge you get to jump when you are on a tall building or high place, looking down.
b077 TIL in June 1984 the prime minister of New Zealand, Robert Muldoon, drunkenly announced on national television that a snap election was to be held in a month’s time. With 93.7% of voters turning out for the election, he lost. The occasion is sometimes remembered as the ‘Schnapps election’.
VDpp TIL of Emmett Till, a black teenager who was murdered after allegedly whistling at a white woman. He was so badly disfigured that the only way he could be identified was through his ring. Years later, the woman in question admitted that she fabricated parts of her story.