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TIL Pacific Electric (PE) was America’s largest interurban electric railway system, blanketing the Los Angeles region with more than 1,000 miles of rail lines

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rkbo TIL that Sioux City, Iowa’s airport has the three-letter designator SUX. When the airport petitioned to the FAA for a different code, one of the alternatives offered was GAY.
oRODo TIL that the youngest person to summit Mount Everest was just 13 years old while the oldest person to summit was 80 years old.
ewE TIL While filming Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “Rope” a camera operator’s foot was crushed. To avoid re-filming the scene he was gagged and hauled out of the studio.
KYN6G TIL that if you were to light your farts on fire, an act called pyroflatulance, the resulting flame would be predominantly blue, as hydrogen and methane, the predominant flammable gasses in farts, burn blue.
N7ZRJ TIL of Rodriguez; a US-based '70s musician, who became a construction worker after commercial failure in the US. However, unbeknown to him, he achieved cult-like status in South Africa, where both his albums went platinum. His daughter found out after discovering a website dedicated to him, in 1997.