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TIL Walmart is not allowed in NYC, but Target is

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j6xoa TIL Electric commuter train use up to 6x less electricity per passenger-km then a Tesla Model 3 with a single driver, depending on train weight. However once the train is less than 10-15% full, it will be less efficient.
RN0l TIL American Association of Physical Anthropologists: Human beings are so biologically similar that if we were dogs we’d all be of the same breed.
b68o9 TIL the first top prize winner on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire never used any of his lifelines until the last question where he used the "Phone a Friend" lifeline. He phoned his father not to ask for help but to tell him that he was about to become a millionaire.
6Zn8 TIL that “point blank range” doesn’t inherently mean “close range”.
Y7YG TIL Nikola Tesla, towards the end of his life, fell in love with a white female pigeon and spent over $2000 USD building a device that could support/heal her broken leg and wing.