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TIL the growing German city of Wuppertal needed a railway, but had nowhere to put it. A regular monorail was deemed unsuitable, and an experimental "Floating Monorail" system was selected and constructed through the city and above the river, and remains in popular use today after over 115 years.

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9wVw7 TIL Blue Bunny ice cream was named in a 1935 contest. The winner noted how much his little boy enjoyed seeing blue bunnies in a department store window at Easter and thought it made a fun name. He won $25 (today's equivalent, $560).
awVWL TIL the "Peter Principle" - that everyone is eventually promoted into a position at which they are incompetent.
GWXG TIL every year in the mekong river in Thailand, hundreds of fireballs erupt from the surface of the water, and nobody knows what causes them. locals believe a mythical serpent called Naga spits fire from the water. The event is known as Naga fireballs.
l7KQV TIL about Malbolge, a programming language designed to be nearly impossible to use. It took 2 years for the first program to appear and its author has never written a program with it.
WVBN TIL that virtually all modern scholars agree that Jesus Christ existed as a historical figure, and that he was 1) baptized by John the baptized and 2) crucified shortly after by order of Pontius Pilate.