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TIL that freight trains often illegally slow down Amtrak trains.

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me5M TIL of 14-year-old Aitazaz Hassan Bangash, who sacrificed his life after tackling a suicide bomber who was determined to kill students gathered for their morning assembly at their school. During the scuffle, the bomber dressed in a school uniform, panicked and set off the bomb, killing them both.
EgZBV TIL Joey Ramone was in remission from lymphoma, but his lifelong OCD led him to go back to his chiropractor to see if he closed the door right. He slipped on ice and broke his hip, forcing him out of chemo to recover, which ultimately lead to the lymphoma reemerging and ultimately killing him.
VBERD TIL One serving of Kiwi has more potassium than a banana, more vitamin C than an orange, and more vitamin E & K than an avocado. (Page 4)
KEvQ TIL that it is by pure coincidence that we exist on a planet and in a time when our star is covered exactly during a total eclipse. No other known planet has total eclipses and at some point in the future they won’t occur on Earth either.
wo81Y TIL the largest cybersecurity breach in history happened just 3 years ago with Cam4, an adult cam site, where over 10 billion records were exposed. The second largest breach was the infamous Yahoo data breach in 2013 with 3 billion records exposed.