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TIL that trains have sandboxes which dispense sand immediately in front of the drive wheels to give the locomotive traction on steep or slippery rails.

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XEdv8 TIL that there is a 1.5km thick layer of salt deep beneath the sea floor of the Mediterranean Sea from the near complete drying up of the Mediterranean Sea 5.5 mya. Salty!
vPNoL TIL Bryan Cranston voiced Lord Rama in a 1992 anime adaptation of the Indian epic Ramayana
4A0g TIL: “Dr” Martin Luther King plagiarized his PhD thesis
ADdP4 TIL: conceptual and non-conceptual mental states. Conceptual is beliefs that shape your current world view. Non-conceptual state can represent the world even though the bearer of those mental states need not possess the concepts required to specify their content.
bd87 TIL Nutella has very few hazelnuts and is actually 58% sugar and is 32% fat, most of which is palm oil.