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TIL Japanese rail workers use a technique called "point and call" to increase mindfulness in their operations and reduce railway accidents.

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W7pJN TIL: Norway has no south to north road connection. If the Storjord-Ballangen ferry is stopped, the shortest alternate route is a 1000km, 13 hour journey through Sweden
d8nNd Today I learned that the Union Jack is made from all UK flags combined together
mxpKR TIL There are up to 500,000 people of Palestinian descent in Chile
XERvr TIL that Smaug the dragon originally had 4 legs in the first Hobbit movie but was changed to having 2 legs and 2 wing-arms in the second Hobbit movie.
1Vp8 TIL In the late Devonian period (during the evolution of terrestrial plants), there was a ‘wood crisis’. Trees became abundant, took CO2 out of the air, and caused an ice age, simply because the fungi that eventually would decompose dead wood & return the CO2 to the air hadn’t evolved yet.