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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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RWl TIL Harry Truman, on a visit to Disneyland, refused to go on the Dumbo ride so that he would not be associated with the Republican party.
AOxw TIL some people in China actually earn $50,000 a year for being professional fart smellers
kda4 TIL more than 50% of the world has never made or received a phone call
E1R70 TIL that a french company is making a perfume with a scent based on dead loved one for people that are grieving
p1LQ TIL that America’s nuclear arsenal stills runs off of 8 inch floppy disks