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TIL That there is a suspended monorail in Germany that was build in 1897 and still moves 25 million passengers annually.

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4Xo4b TIL Bessie Coleman was an American Aviator and the first black woman to earn a pilot's license.Because flying schools in the United States denied her entry,she taught herself French and moved to France,earning her license from France's well-known Caudron Brother's School of Aviation in just 7 months
Me00 TIL Nike offered the German Soccer team €500 million to outfit the team. They honorably refused and stayed with German-based Adidas for six times less.
X058D TIL First grown in Africa about 5,000 years ago, yellow watermelons went through generations of selective cross-breeding for texture, color and sweetness before any pink variety ever appeared. As the lycopene content of hybrid varieties increased over time, the fruit naturally became redder and redd
8ZBK TIL of the existence of ‘Numbers Stations’; hundreds of shortwave radio stations featuring broadcasts of formatted numbers and sounds, which since the 1950’s, are believed to be addressed to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries.
8eKL4 TIL that Tiny fern has the biggest genome ever recorded. It contains 160 billion base pairs — 50 times more than the human genome.