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TIL about Union Pacific's restoration of UP 4014 "Big Boy". When completed in 2019, it will be the largest, heaviest, and most powerful operating steam locomotive in the world.

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WywA TIL that in 1982 a journalist sent out word-for-word copies of the screenplay for “Casablanca” to every Hollywood film agency. Of the 85 that read it, 33 recognized it and only four made an offer for it. The other 48 rejected the script outright.
PYWDV [TIL] William Chester Minor cut off his penis and contributed a lot to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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