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TIL Casey Jones sacrificed himself in order to slow his train to save his passengers from serious injury or death. He was the only fatality.

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4X0Wb TIL The actual Mulberry bush that the nursery rhyme "Here we go around the Mulberry bush" is named after died in 2017 and was completely cut down and removed in 2019. In the 1980s cuttings were taken from it and they have grown into full trees now.
J0bv TIL astronomer Johannes Kepler abandoned everything to defend his mother against claims of witchcraft–over a period of six years–saving her from sure execution at the stake.
R7on8 TIL the Tesseract, or Hypercube, isn't the only 4 dimensional shape, and there are 5 others recognized as Regular, including one with 600 corners.
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PYGVJ TIL there are more statues dedicated to Sacagawea, who was Lewis and Clark's native guide than any other American woman