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TIL: The New York Transit authority dumped over 2,500 subway cars into the Atlantic Ocean.

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8aoeV TIL of xenobots; Synthetic lifeforms designed by AI which are part robot, part organism, the size of a grain of sand and capable of performing tasks such as pushing payloads, cleaning debris, working together in swarms and even reproduce new xenobots
LQOD0 TIL that Neil Young's Southern Man briefly plays in the background of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama when they mention him (at about 0:54)
w9xW TIL the last person Tupac spoke to was a police officer. The cop held a dying Tupac in his arms and the cop asked Tupac to tell him who shot him. Tupac looked at the cop and said “F**k you.” Those were Tupac’s last words.
JLD8 TIL two species of geckos mated and they birthed a super-athlete female gecko that wouldn’t have sex with the other geckos. Instead she spawned new versions herself who spawned themselves, and now there’s a vigorous, speedy, mutant race of mother geckos cloning daughter geckos.
VBWXG TIL Rainier III, Prince of Monaco smoked 60 cigarettes a day.