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TIL that the rail system in Europe is so good because better rail systems mobilized armies better for WWI.

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AADd TIL that there is a list (updated annually) designed to help instructors avoid using cultural references that their students aren’t old enough to understand.
7rQr7 TIL that in 2013, the state of Nevada was sued for engaging in "Greyhound Therapy," a practice where troublesome mental patients are given one-way tickets to out-of-state destinations in order to free up bed space.
wL8O8 TIL scientists discovered an unknown species of lizard in a Vietnamese lunch buffet
4XVb5 TIL Warren Buffett, worth $78 Billion, gave his son Peter a single inheritance of $90k worth of stock at age 19. He has never given him more financial assistance. Peter spent the money on recording equipment. Had he kept the stock it would be worth over $70 million today.
ne4Eo TIL There are classes in Japan that teach kids how to use the Soroban abacus to develop faster skills in arithmetic. After a few years they no longer even need to use a real abacus to perform fast mental calculations since they can already visualize an image of it