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TIL if you own your own rail car, Amtrak will let you attach it to one of their trains and go along for the ride…

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N7p8N TIL Nietzsche, Freud, Rilke, and Rée all fell in love with the same woman, Lou Salomé. Intellectual and prolific, she was the first female psychoanalyst and lived free of society’s prescription for women. She was the ultimate feminist/ubermensch, yet is completely forgotten by history.
4XEkg TIL of "The Immortal Game", a casual match between chess grand masters in the interim of the first international chess tournament. Despite not being an official match, it is considered one of the most famous matches of all time.
5V1lB TIL King of the Hill characters Kahn Souphanousinphone and Cotton Hill were voiced by the same voice actor
8ep1K TIL the prison Martha Stewart served time in is nicknamed Camp Cupcake due to it's cushy conditions that include no barbed wire and cottages instead of jail cells.
XEJWR TIL: That John Wilkes Booth was a well-known A-list actor, considered equivalent in status to Leonardo DiCaprio. He was a heartthrob and named “Sexiest Man Alive”