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TIL that it costs Russia about $200,000 a year to keep Lenin’s body preserved.

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WkxrL TIL the Japanese high-speed rail system has a network of seismometers that will stop their bullet trains in the event of an earthquake. This system was activated just 12 seconds before the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and as a result, only one bullet train on its test run derailed that day.
BrayD TIL a law school grad sued her alma mater, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, because she felt they made false statements that she'd be able to get a good job after acquiring a law degree from them. She lost the case.
ANMgw TIL: Blood is thicker than water doesn't mean what you think it means.
4WNJ TIL Australia has a tradition called “democracy sausage” where poll workers have a sausage sizzle outside the polling place
6ERX TIL The Apollo 10 Lunar Lander was Short-Fueled for Fear that the Astronauts would land on the Moon