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TIL that Transport for London has a history of giving babies born on a train/in underground stations free lifetime rail/train passes

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oBoK TIL “Fido” is a common dog name because it was the name of Abe Lincoln’s dog; the pooch outlived the president, but was eventually stabbed by a drunk man.
0ddJy TIL Wilt Chamberlain claimed to have slept with 20 000 women and later said "I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying."
WJ6B TIL in 2008 Lamborghini gave the Italian state police the world’s fastest police car, a Gallardo LP560-4, which was equipped with a video surveillance camera, gun racks, GPS, organ transplant cooler (in the luggage compartment) and defibrillator. It was crashed the following year.
gpdL TIL that before X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) began filming. Patrick Stewart informed director Bryan Singer that he would be willing to play Mystique instead of Jennifer Lawrence. He said: “I am so ready to be naked, painted blue, and the world is ready for it too.”
Y7yEv TIL that the oldest archaeological evidence of copper mining and working was the discovery of a copper pendant in northern Iraq from 8,700 BCE.