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TIL 1 in 5 CEOs have psychopathic tendencies

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LQGOP TIL the longest freight train ever was 7.353 km (4.57 miles) long. It consisted of 682 ore cars pushed by 8 powerful diesel-electric locomotives. On 6/21/2001, the train travelled 275 km (171 miles). The train was also the heaviest ever, weighing 99,732.1 metric tonnes. It had 5,648 wheels.
6EPVw TIL That Bob Hawke is the only Australian prime minister with a world record and his world record is for drinking 2.5 pints of beer in under 11 seconds.
4bJ6 TIL Ian Fleming, writer of James Bond, last words were “I am sorry to trouble you chaps. I don’t know how you get along so fast with the traffic on the roads these days.” uttered to the Ambulance drivers
6Ep0Z TIL That “linguicide” is an actual term that refers to the death of language. Through linguicide, a language goes extinct every two weeks
jdNX TIL a marketer for Kraft Foods rotated their square Shreddies cereal 45 degrees, and re-marketed them as the new “Diamond Shreddies”. The new product showed a large increase in sales and test groups even reported a difference in flavor.