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TIL that Obskaya–Bovanenkovo Line is the most northerly railway in the world

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4EQg TIL we shouldn’t call terrorists “Jihadists” or “Islamist” since it puts their actions in a positive light. The proper term is “hirabi”, meaning “one who commits unlawful warfare.”
Km1w TIL that American Space Shuttle Astronaut John Grunsfeld, while in orbit, called in to NPR’s Car Talk posing as a stumped caller.
Y7Rx TIL the Romans reached the Chinese Empire, and established an embassy there.
XEYoP TIL after a secret program conducted by the US in the Marshal Islands in the 1950s, parts of the island complex still have radiation higher than Chernobyl or Fukushima even so many decades after the now declassified experiment
b9o0a TIL that a Stanford professor did the calculations for the famous scene in Silicon Valley where they figure out the fastest way to jerk off all the guys in the room, and later published a paper detailing the math behind it