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rRLe1 TIL Jocko Willink inspired Snake in Metal Gear Solid with 10 Life Lessons
dD9MB TIL John Quincy Adams was nearly a casualty of the first fatal train accident in US history. The car in which he rode would have overturned had the car behind it not done so first. Of the 24 passengers in the overturned car, 2 died & 21 were injured, including Cornelius Vanderbilt (broken leg).
neBLG TIL that out of the 22 deepest mines in the world 17 are located in South Africa
QNNM9 TIL The London Underground has its own subspecies of mosquito that lives exclusively in the stations and tunnels
ANYyo TIL people who learn to drive as teenagers during gas price shocks like the oil crises of the 1970s drive less even 20 years later in life