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TIL the Japanese high-speed rail system has a network of seismometers that will stop their bullet trains in the event of an earthquake. This system was activated just 12 seconds before the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and as a result, only one bullet train on its test run derailed that day.

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neWxY TIL, that the economical model responsible for this genocidal program implemented by Pol Pot in Cambodia originated as a doctoral thesis at Sorbonne in 1950s
Yaov TIL that in 1997 for April Fools, many comic strip artists switched comics and each drew another one’s comic. It was called the Great Comic Strip Switcharoo.
8YMK TIL in 1975, a 15-year-old girl was beaten to death, with the primary suspects in the murder being Kennedy-Cousins Thomas and Michael Skakel. Although Michael Skakel was overheard in 1978 stating, “I’m going to get away with murder. I’m a Kennedy”, it was not until 2002 that he was convicted.
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AD7oo TIL that after Henry VIII was unhorsed in a jousting competition, his second wife Anne Boleyn was so shocked, that she miscarried a male child at 15 weeks. This all occurred on the day of Henry's first wife Catherine of Aragon's funeral - January 29th 1536.