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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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QJNOe TIL telling ghost stories was a Victorian Christmas tradition that has largely disappeared but survives in "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" and "A Christmas Carol"
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44lb TIL that the Nazis were willing to deport all Jews to Madagascar instead of killing them; Hitler even signed off on this in 1938. However, they lacked a method of transportation, and the result was the Holocaust.
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