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

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GG71 TIL fungi have been observed to do almost everything in managing an environment, from digesting minerals out of rock formations to consuming fossil fuel spills to de-radiating an environment(like around Chernobyl) (btw 30:57- 47:45)
4ZK6 TIL that architecture, painting, poetry, music, literature, all used to be part of the Olympic Games.
WRod TIL there was a 14-year old boy who died after the height adjustment cylinder on his chair exploded, shooting metal shrapnel into his rectum.
WkM8A TIL of Randy, the Guinea Pig that broke into the female enclosure at his Zoo, and impregnated around 100 females in 2014. He then became a father of around 400 babies.
dDMJd TIL The acuity of Aqaba in Jordan intentionally sank 21 tanks, anti-aircraft, and other military memorabilia to create an underwater museum for divers