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TIL over 3,000 passengers die each year on the Mumbai commuter rail due to crowded trains and open dors

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v1YD TIL that cats have a non-fatal terminal velocity of around 60mph, and when falling (after relaxing and orienting themselves) they merely ‘parachute’ to earth like a squirrel.
nWKJB TIL Dorinish (Irish: Deoirinis) is an uninhabited island in Clew Bay in County Mayo, Ireland. During the 1970s it was briefly inhabited by Hippies who established a commune there under the patronage of the island's then owner John Lennon.
699MW TIL about Bob Lemmons, an expert "Mustanger." Freed by the Civil War, he learned to tame horses. Usually herds of wild mustangs were run down by groups, but Lemmons worked alone. Riding with the herd for several weeks, he'd gradually take over, mount the stallion and lead the horses into a corral.
kOJXe TIL the Rolling-Right-Turn on red is the number one cause of car accidents in the US
BrXKr TIL that if the atom was the size of the observable universe, then the theoretical ‘string’ in string theory would be the size of a tree.