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TIL robbers in India robbed trains using 1 rupee coins. The coins were used to complete the signal circuit normally completed by train wheels to make the light go red and stop the train

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5Qr8 TIL: Terry Fox, a 21 year old one-legged cancer patient, ran 3,339miles across Canada in 143 days before dying. He ran the equivalent of a full marathon every day and was the youngest person ever named a Companion of the Order of Canada.
MPn0 TIL - from 1961 to 1993, the only non-Navy man to become president was Ronald Reagan.
9YL6 TIL The German 7th Panzer Division, a.k.a. the Ghost Division, was so fast and independent that even the German High Command didn’t always know where they were during the Battle of France.
Bnby TIL That NOT France, but, with a population of over 79 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populated officially Francophone country in the world.
9wOxX TIL when a male anglerfish finds a female, it bites into her, melts it's body to her down to the blood-vessel level so that she has a male immediately available when she is ready to spawn.