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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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BrlBW TIL Mosquitoes are attracted to the scent of our body. As such, mosquito repellents evaporate on the skin and work by blocking a mosquito's sense of smell, preventing it from finding its target.
Z81yG TIL actor Jim Carrey wrote a fictitious autobiography that includes Chinese conspiracies, faking versions of celebrities, hallucinogenic dialogues, battling aliens with Gwyneth Paltrow and dressing up before going to bed as he’s afraid of selfies taken at the morgue if he dies in his sleep.
jeMR TIL that those big ass fans in Ikea are actually made by a company called Big Ass Fans.
QQG6 TIL A man with Down Syndrome was beaten by Miami police who thought his colostomy bag was suspicious.
R7nmQ TIL that when Robert Ballard asked the Navy to fund his search for the Titanic, they told him to secretly survey two sunken US nuclear subs first, to keep the USSR in the dark. After the covert mission was done, Ballard's team had only 12 days to find the Titanic.