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TIL of Doctor Yellow, the name for the two diagnostic bullet trains on Japan's Shinkansen. They test the tracks at 270 kph. Seeing one of these rare trains is considered a sign of good luck

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jN6WR TIL A researcher once played a recording of an elephant who had died. The sound was coming from a speaker hidden in a thicket. The family went wild calling, looking all around. The dead elephant’s daughter called for days afterward. The researchers never again did such a thing.
b9nm0 TIL: Each year The U.S. plants at least 1.6 billion trees or about 6 trees for each one used.
jNDya TIL in 2015, the judge from the Supreme Court of the United States included the quote "A great power must be accompanied by — a great responsibility!" in their opinion in the ruling of the Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC case
OoEJR TIL of a Dutch sailor who stole a military aircraft and flew it to Libya to get out of the Dutch Navy.
v1wwj TIL the Lo-Fi girl video was a livestream, and that it had been running for 1.5 years before the channel got suspended in error, creating the longest running YT video