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TIL that the deadliest incident involving trains happened when the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hit an overloaded train carrying upwards of 1700 passengers in Sri Lanka.

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xbxw TIL The most played song on AM radio of all times “You’ve Lost That Lovin Feeling” has a runtime of 3:45 at its day of release considered as too long for AM radio. In order to secure airtime Phil Spector had a false running time (3:05) printed on the label in order to trick DJs into playing it.
YpNMv TIL about the Tyranny of Small Decisions, a phenomenon where small, individually rational decisions can lead to large and undesirable outcomes, and the irreversible destruction of desired alternatives.
Y1mW TIL - One teaspoon of water contains about three times as many atoms as the Atlantic Ocean contains teaspoons of water
L1RZ TIL there will be a comet passing Earth in Oct-Nov 2013 that may be bright enough to see in the daylight with the naked eye!
d8yYZ TIL a day before Elvis Presley died on 16 August 1977, Jerry Ehman of Ohio State University detected an unusually strong signal from space. Instead of the typical random numbers, there was a stream 30 times louder than the background buzz of deep space. Ehman was so amazed he wrote the word "wow!"