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TIL the U.S. freight rail network moves one-third of all U.S. exports and roughly 40% of long distance freight volume, competing directly with the trucking industry

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DQYle TIL 80% of the moon rock mass picked up by Apollo astronauts in the NASA collection remains stored in a pristine condition for future scientific study
Bg48b TIL that when IBM tasked Bill Gates with the creation of a OS for their computer Gates didn't have one nor he knew how to make one, so he bought one (DOS) from a local company for $75k, hired an engineer to adapt it to IBM machines and sold it for millions to IBM without ever writing a line of code.
vP6dx TIL that each driver in the Indy 500 has to fill out a ballot for what type of milk they want on the podium if they win, per tradition. Emerson Fittipaldi chose orange juice
nWey7 TIL in 1922 Deputy Prime Minister to Ireland Kevin O'Higgins ordered the execution of Rory O'Connor, who was the best man at his wedding only one year prior.
R5Wbj TIL, Until the evolution of the printing press in the 15th century, use of modern numbers (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9), also called Arabic numerals, in Europe was mainly confined to Northern Italy.