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TIL Spain has second longest high speed rail network in the world, only behind China

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VWZ4 TIL Uzbekistan executed two men by boiling them alive… in 2002
VMlLm TIL that in 1900 the Chinatown in Honolulu was intentionally burned down to prevent the further spread of plague. Four months later, Honolulu was plague-free.
P1lrJ TIL There are no Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants in Buffalo
Oam1 TIL: Japanese folklore contains a creature known as Ashiarai Yashiki, a giant foot that crashes through the roof in the middle of the night, demanding the terrified homeowner wash it.
dOBj TIL that a town in North Carolina banned solar energy because they thought it would “suck up all the energy from the sun”