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TIL In 1989 A gas pipeline alongside the Trans-Siberian Railway exploded just as two trains passed each other simultaneously, killing 575 people. Known as the Ufa Train disaster

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6Dxw TIL that Jeremy Bentham, a famous ethicist, still attends board meetings at University College of London because the board approved that he could attend every meeting. Disregarding the fact that he has been dead for 83 years now.
RD6a TIL that Russian Jewish engineer Jakow Trachtenberg developed a system of rapid mental calculation (The Trachtenberg system) while being held in a Nazi concentration camp in order to keep his mind occupied.
JYyA4 TIL In 1994, four of Pixar's directors had a lunch where they came up with four movie ideas. Those ideas became A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and WALL-E.
jNm5p TIL Jay Leno has Pathologic Mandibular Prognathism, a disfiguring genetic disorder where the lower jaw outgrows the upper, resulting in an extended chin and a cross bite. He is aware of surgery that could reset his mandible, but does not wish to endure a prolonged healing period.
Vbg4 TIL If you take all the DNA in your body and line it up to form one long strand, it would measure to be 135 trillion meters long. It would be able to wrap around the Earth’s equator 2.5 million times or about twice the diameter of our solar system.