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TIL there are trams that survived the bombing of Hiroshima and are still in use today.

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4kybw TIL that the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883, mandates that most positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political patronage
rRDQW TIL the Ye in "Ye olde pub" is actually pronounced as The, Y (þ thorn) is how people used to write TH
v1Bg7 TIL Jeffery Dahmer's 1st murder was committed just 3 weeks after graduating H.S. in 1978. The murder of Steven Mark Hicks wouldn't come to light until the 1990's after Dahmer had murdered 16 more people and was finally in police custody.
R7VE4 Today I learned that Ed Kemper spent 5,000+ hours over the course of a decade narrating several hundred books on tape for the blind, producing over 4 million feet of tape, as part of a program run in the California Medical Facility State Prison.
8a4Jb TIL Institut Le Rosey, an elite Swiss boarding school, also has a campus in the ski resort of Gstaad. The school relocates its operations to the resort from January to March.