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TIL There's a Federal Railroad Administration which allows you to report when and where trains have blocked a crossing for unreasonable amounts of time.

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GAg55 TIL that it's because we added.soft foods to our diets that we can pronounce f and v
9wdMM TIL : about the game "Foldit", a puzzle game about protein folding. In 2011, its gamers helped decipher a protein of a HIV-like virus, solving a scientific problem that went unsolved for 15 years in as little as 10 days.
d1Od TIL In 1961 a yoga teacher was able to convince hundreds of people that she was the female reincarnation of Jesus creating a horrific cult in Australia called The Family, one of the only known cults led by a woman.
pYP8N TIL the Popigai impact structure is the largest created within the last 100 million years, and the shock pressures from the impact instantaneously transformed graphite in the ground into diamonds within a 13.6 km (8.5 mi) radius of the impact point
ERK0 TIL the actor who played young Forrest Gump ended up enlisting in the Army and going to combat just like his character