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TIL the first full size electric locomotive was built in 1842, powered by zinc-acid batteries and travelled at 4mph

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XEYLX TIL outside the academic space Dmitry Mendeleev (creator of Periodic table of elements) was a man of unusual interests and the widest professional knowledge. It’s hard to count them all. He was a chemist, physicist, economist, meteorologist, technologist, geologist, meteorologist, pedagogue, aviator
e0vWL TIL that New York is not named after the English city York, but named after James II (James VII in Scotland) who was the then Duke of York.
E1Q6x TIL "The Full Monty" originally refers to a full English breakfast. It was named for WWII British Army general Bernard Montgomery who, during the North African campaign, started every day with a full English breakfast.
gMY4W TIL John Hall co-wrote the 1976 hit "Still the One" with his wife. They divorced in 1985 and he later remarried, meaning she is, in fact, no longer "The One".
Br1Pd TIL of Derinkuyu, the world’s deepest underground city, capable of holding 20,000 inhabitants.