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TIL It costs $6 to visit Karl Marx' grave.
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TIL Astronomers discovered a "zombie" star that went supernova in 1954...then exploded again in 2014. According to the study's lead author, "This supernova breaks everything we thought we knew about how they work."
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TIL Los Angeles once had the largest electric rail system in the world, until automobile, tire, and oil companies bought and dismantled it, along with mass transit systems in 44 other US cities. The mass transit systems were replaced with freeways and buses, increasing sales of cars, tires, and oil.
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TIL Pope Benedict XVI was once a member of Hitler Youth after his church group was forced to merge with it.
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TIL: that until 1990, British judges would wear a black cap while pronouncing execution sentences, and that it is still used in some ceremonies today
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TIL there is a railroad station in Kinokawa, Japan whose Station Master is a cat.