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TIL that Toronto's Yonge-University subway line carries over 670,000 people on an average weekday; which is nearly twice the total number of people who ride the 8 lines of the Chicago "L".

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yQYgJ TIL that ignorance breeding overconfidence is a scientifically observed phenomenon called the “Dunning–Kruger effect“
9w5m TIL just 2 days after Nikola Tesla’s death, the FBI ordered the Office of Alien Property (OAP) to seize all of his belongings, even though Tesla was an American citizen. The “Alien Property Custodian” was an office of the US Government that was in charge of the property that belonged to US enemies.
nWePW TIL that Elephants have been known to mimic human speech
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