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TIL that pollution in London was once so bad, that some train lines used detonations as signals, because drivers couldn’t see the lights

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Vjek TIL that Al Queda’s strategy specifically involved using terrorism to provoke the West into long wars in numerous places that would lead to its financial collapse.
AMdg TIL that Spanish Flu didn’t come from Spain or hit it especially hard. Spain didn’t have the wartime censors other countries had, so Spanish media could report freely on the pandemic. This made it look like the situation in Spain was especially severe - resulting in the nickname “Spanish flu”.
r5EW TIL Thrift Shop was the first song since 1994 that reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label
wodJ1 TIL Po from Teletubbies is bilingual in Cantonese
enDL TIL a Boeing 707 took off from Paris, got lost near the Northpole, had its wing tip blown off by a Soviet fighter jet, landed on a frozen lake afterwards and almost everyone survived.