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TIL a freight train can move 1 ton of material approximately 500 miles using 1 gallon of diesel fuel (on average).

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AN7ao TIL that in 1942, Nazi Germany was patrolling off the North Carolina coast, and a British ship was sunk defending the NC coast.
grab TIL that one U.S. Navy ship nearly killed FDR by accident… twice!
l7EZ7 TIL Only 18 Percent Of Americans Can Drive Manual
mWRR TIL that in Ancient Alexandria there was a prominent Mathematician named Hypatia. She came to embody the enlightened Alexandian spirit. She was flayed to death with oyster shells by a Christian mob. Her death is considered by many to be the beginning of the end for intellectual Alexandria.
MeaE7 TIL Mississippi set up a commission that became a de facto intelligence organization which surveilled people suspected of being anti-segregationist. The commission was eventually linked to the murder of three civil rights workers. It existed between 1956 and 1977 and profiled over 87 000 people.