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TIL About Abbie Sweetwine, an African American Nurse who helped save passengers in Britain's largest peacetime accident, Harrow & Wealdstone

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awDVJ TIL that the 1994 box office bomb Baby's Day Out was a huge hit in South Asia, beating Star Wars as the most successful American film. It was played for over a year at the largest theater in Calcutta and spawned two remakes
5YoKn TIL that there’s a British band named Nirvana, who formed in 1965 and they sued the American band over the same name but settled out of court
1aop4 TIL The Democratic Republic of Congo is widely considered one of the world's richest countries in natural resources; its untapped deposits of raw minerals are estimated to be worth in excess of US$24 trillion. Yet, owing to political instability, it remains one of the poorest countries (per capita).
axWZ TIL Nikola Tesla openly expressed disgust for overweight people. Once, he fired his secretary solely because of her weight.
kEV1 TIL - The size that acorns grow to is partly dictated by how large the mouths of birds and squirrels are - if the acorns grow too large the animals can’t disperse them away from the tree which is critical for germination an seedling growth