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TIL of the Boynton Bicycle Railroad. It was a monorail with two vertically aligned rails(one wooden), double decker passenger cars, propelled by steam engines that ran for two years in the 1890s in Brooklyn, New York.

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5eYD TIL Large Blue caterpillars secretes sweet fluids to attract red ants. The ants then take the caterpillar back to their nest so it can hibernate. The newly emerged butterfly is escorted by the ants to the surface and will protect it from any predators that attempt to attack the butterfly.
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