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TIL tomato is both fruit and vegetable

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b9R1a TIL there is a machine called a ballast cleaner. It's sole purpose is to wash stones on railway lines. In the UK, one operator's ballast cleaner washes around 1.6km of stones every night.
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GAokQ TIL that Jesse James stole a gold shipment from America's transcontinental railroad in 1873. A Chinese student wrote "nothing occurred on our Eastward journey to mar the enjoyment ... excepting a train robbery, a consequent smashup of the engine, and the murder of the engineer".
Br4jr TIL that Rudolf Diesel, who invented the Diesel engine, committed suicide in 1913 because he didn't think his invention would be successful.
yQYeJ TIL that Akira Kurosawa was unable to get funding after a series of flops, and only returned to filmmaking after attempted suicide when the Soviet Union enlisted him to make a film set in Russia