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TIL someone once tried to intentionally crash a train into a ship. They drove a freight train at full speed off the end of a railroad spur near a ship terminal. The locomotive did skid about 100 yards after derailing, but came to rest 200 yards short of its intended target, USNS Hospital Ship Mercy.

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LQp0r TIL that there is such a thing as a two-story outhhouse
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