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TIL of the Super Chief a train that was famous for carrying start between Chicago and Los Angeles back in the day.

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grOeA TIL that a Schandmantel was a torture device fashioned from wood and sometimes metal. Victims were made to wear this device in public where they would be insulted, humiliated and have rotten vegetables thrown at them. The Schandmantel was mostly used as punishment for poachers and prostitutes
W9y4 TIL In 1966 a Beluga whale swam up the Rhine river (Germany) as far as Bonn. The skippers who first saw the whale had to take blood alcohol tests after reporting it.
1aBZV TIL that in WW1 Germany protested America's use of the shotgun, as they believed to cause unnecessary suffering and a violation of the Law of War
Y9GP TIL there are more than 1 million Catholics in Saudi Arabia
xJOk TIL the last man to be executed by firing squad in the USA asked for a bulletproof vest as his last wish