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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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VBM7k TIL that the Shunganunga boulder, a 23-ton red quartzite rock, was moved by glaciers from the Dakotas to Kansas hundreds of thousands of years ago; the boulder is sacred to the Kanza tribe (expelled from the state named after them) and Shunganunga translates to "Big Red Rock" in their language.
VMe44 TIL Scott Joplin the man who revolutionized the way piano is played was turned away from backing of financial suitors because he was black and it didn't suit them. He ended up contracting syphilis and was admitted into a psychiatric hospital. He died ther and his grave was unmarked for 57 years.
1NxD TIL Beverly Cleary (author of popular children’s books Beezus and Ramona and Henry Huggins) is still alive at 101 years old
VBRLB TIL the last european battle of WW2 was fought by Croatian fascists against Yugoslav partisans fighting weeks after the surrender of Germany
YyQ7 TIL: A 24 yr old woman was sentenced to 20 months in jail for sending abusive Facebook messages to herself from fake profiles she made for her father and his wife