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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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vAkR TIL During the 1872 election, presidential incumbent Ulysses S. Grant ran against a corpse. His opponent, Horace Greeley, died before the election was finalized. Grant won the election.
wL6m6 TIL Brie Larson legal last name is “Desaulniers” and she chose the stage name of Larson from her Swedish great-grandmother and the American Girl doll Kirsten Larson that she has as a child.
QNZV9 TIL about Marina Abramović, a Serbian performance artist who, in 1974, created an art piece called Rhythm 0. In this piece, she placed 72 objects on a table that ranged from a feather, scissors and a gun with a single bullet. She then allowed the audience to do whatever they wanted for 6 hours.
69Xww TIL of Fidel Castro’s dairy cow, Ubre Blanca, who was specially bred to break the American record in milk production
wL8VP TIL Hawaii's public education system began in 1841 and is the oldest in the U.S. west of the Mississippi. When the kingdom was overthrown it became illegal to teach the Hawaiian language, teachers were punished for speaking Hawaiian at school. It wasn't until 1978 that the state made it mandatory.