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TIL the city of Atlanta, GA is named after the Western & Atlantic railroad line

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5Yw4Q TIL that because Subarus use unconventional construction and high strength steel in the B pillars, first responders had to develop new techniques for extracting crash victims.
69bBY TIL the seemingly random string of letters and numbers "ji32k7au4a83" is a common password to use with online accounts because it spells out ""my password" in Chinese when using the Zhuyin keyboard layout to type.
AjG7 TIL In Stringtown, Oklahoma, population 400, 76 percent of the town’s 2013 budget came from traffic tickets. After a state investigation into excessive speed trapping the town’s police department was disbanded.
BgXlW TIL: In the 1950s the British Navy invented Water Hockey - played in 2-4 meters of water, with fins, snorkels, and a plastic-coated lead puck. It is currently played in over 20 countries that hold a world championship every other year.
0wQMy TIL Jerry Zucker, the director of Airplane! and Top Secret as well as a writer for Naked Gun, was the director for Ghost (1990) with Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg