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TIL Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway line in the world

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x6Awb TIL about the Wada Test, a procedure that "shuts down" one hemisphere of your brain at a time, leaving the other one awake. This allows the hemispheres to be evaluated for language and memory capacities individually.
VMN70 TIL about Phocion, an Athenian statesman who was so humble and frugal that he was known simply as "The Good", was elected a record 45 times as Strategos (head of the military) and singlehandedly convinced Alexander the Great to spare Athens and focus on war with Persia instead.
p8gDe TIL that the "oh!" in "Unbelievable" by EMF is a sample of Andrew "Dice" Clay.
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kOpYd TIL that the painting completed at the highest elevation on earth was of the K2 mountain which took 10 days to complete and required the artist to survive off the dirty watercolor paint water.