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TIL the Orient Express Became the World’s Most Glamorous Train

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ANKO7 TIL that the ruby-throated hummingbird flies non-stop across the Gulf of Mexico as part of its spring migration and has a VO2 max that is about 10 times higher than elite human athletes.
dDPjj TIL real rain often doesn’t show up clearly on camera, so filmmakers commonly rely on backlighting to make the droplets visible
xV7j1 TIL: in 2015 Queen Elizabeth visited the set of Game of Thrones and got a close look at the Iron Throne, but refused to take a seat because there's an old rule that says the Queen is not allowed to sit on a foreign throne.
KNb9 TIL: Planned Parenthood rejected a $500,000 donation for the naming rights of a clinic in Texas where their funding is poor. Why? The would-be donor was Tucker Max.
9OGr TIL that when the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous phrase “Where they burn books, they will also in the end burn people.”