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TIL that Cincinnati has a subway system that was abandoned and never finished.

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Wwa8 TIL: “Government once even claimed that Hooters discriminates against men because it hires big-breasted female waiters. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission only dropped its complaint after Hooters ran a commercial showing a hairy male server wearing Hooters’ skimpy uniform.”
XEWoX TIL Fidel Castro was obsessed with Cow Genetics and Breeding. In 1982, he successfully bred Ubre Blanca, who broke the world record for most milk produced in one day. When the cow died in 1985, the State Media published a front page obituary and the postal service issued stamps in her honor.
N7aQM TIL Quantum Immortality is a thought experiment according to which self conscious beings cannot experience death. According to the experiment, the self conscious being’s mind would just switch to another reality in which its death did not occur.
ADYYd TIL Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye and Dr. Darrell Cass, both pediatric surgeons, removed a baby from a womb to cut out a tumor, placed the baby back and several weeks later the baby was born healthy.
7rK7b TIL that it used to be a job to drive around the country, constantly, driving and measuring every road, grade, elevation, and distance, in order to keep road maps updating accurately every two weeks. "Road scouts" would drive enough miles in a year to make multiple trips to the moon.