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TIL 90% of Native Americans have no issue with the name “Washington Redskins”

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m1DOP TIL that in 2002, a train from South Korea on the Yeosu-Seoul line had 3 consecutive fatal collisions; all victims were elderly (81-90) and per protocol the engineers had to be swapped out after each collision; Some passengers even preemptively got off. The train ended up being 36 minutes late.
vNaL TIL there is an enzyme that makes a reaction that normally takes 78 million years occur in 18 milliseconds. 10^17 times faster.
rNyYx TIL 2 time Olympic gold medalist and 3 division boxing champion Vasiliy Lomachenko has an amateur record of 396-1. He also avenged that 1 loss twice.
PYEvG TIL In 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed an order making beer an alcoholic drink. The law went into effect on Jan 1st 2013. Before this, any drink under 10% alcohol was considered a soft drink.
e0j95 TIL that the weight of silverware in restaurants impacts how much a customer is willing to pay for their meal