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TIL Shock G and Humpty Hump from Digital Underground are the same person.

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YpBVx TIL Franklin Sprague, an amateur tinkerer, in 1888 managed to build the very first electrified rail system that spanned 12 miles - a feat that was accomplished in just 90 days and paved the way for a viable mass transit system
exYn TIL a Subaru production plant in Lafayette, Indiana has celebrated almost a decade of being ‘zero landfill’, while producing more than 1.7 million cars. The plant is also a designated wildlife habitat, co-existing peacefully with wildlife in the area.
GyLN TIL The Museum of Endangered Sounds exists to allow streaming of once popular technological sounds. ie. the dial-up tone, ICQ chat tone, Windows 95 startup
Gvk5 TIL there is a monument in Russia dedicated to enema treatments.
69reW TIL that Dippin Dots, the popular ice cream snack commonly found in stadiums, arenas, and theme parks, was originally created as cryogenically frozen cow feed.