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TIL Volcanic winter of 536 AD that had consequences on wars, famine and epidemic, having consequences on history, due to climatic change and sun light screening

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j6xpn TIL There is a US electric freight railroad in Mason City, Iowa. It operates Baldwin-Westinghouse Steeplecab electric locomotives built in the 1920s, over 100 years ago
g4k8 TIL World’s fastest talking man can articulate more than 500 words per minute and sings Michael Jackson’s BAD in 20 seconds.
7rnXp TIL of Federal Express Flight 705. In April 1994, a disgruntled, suicidal employee tried to hijack and down the plane, brutally attacking the crew with a hammer. The wounded captain put the DC-10 in a dive and rolled it to incapacitate the attacker before landing successfully.
dDKQ TIL a hawk can have 20/2 vision. This means that a hawk can see an object 20 feet (6 meters) away that a human could only see from a distance of two feet (0.6 meters).
nZe7 TIL that, after years of denials, the CIA admitted to gathering records on activist Noam Chomsky during the Vietnam War. It also destroyed those records, in apparent violation of federal law.