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TIL the private railroad car was invented for a tour by Swedish soprano Jenny Lind in the United States

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KO64J TIL that every “peace symbol” you see has a meaning that has been lost on many people– it was originally designed by combining the semaphore letters “N” and “D,” which stood for Nuclear Disarmament.
ep6DL TIL Earth has 7 Quasi-Satellites. Quasi-Satellites are like Satellites (Moon), but their orbits lie outside the planet's Hill sphere, a region in which it dominates the attraction of satellites.
JYpRk TIL that drug smugglers have SUCCESSFULLY used carrier pigeons to smuggle drugs. Wow.
G7l1 TIL 1 in every 100 american adults are in prison, and that the U.S has more people in prison than China.
P19JL TIL in 1990 the CIA imported over 1 ton of cocaine and sold it within the US, supposedly to gain the trust of a Colombian cartel. They obtained the cocaine from the Venezuelan ANTI narcotics chief.