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TIL that more people travel in Indian Railways daily than the entire population of Australia

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AD61B TIL there is no such thing as "South Detroit". "South Detroit would be Windsor, ON, Canada.
8DnV TIL the Energizer bunny was intended to be a parody of Duracell, which advertised using a pink bunny mascot as early as the 70s (15 years before Energizer). However, Energizer got the trademark first, and last year sued Duracell for selling their original pink bunny packaging in some US stores.
VyA4 TIL It was “Flavor Aid,” not “Kool-Aid” that poisoned the suicidal members of the Jonestown Massacre, an incident which gave us the phrase “don’t drink the Kool-Aid.”
4XkyX TIL that researchers identified two different types of mind-wandering: intentional mind-wandering, which tends to occur when people engage in easy tasks, and unintentional mind-wandering, which tends to occur when people engage in difficult tasks.
5Y7Xp TIL of Oak Ridge, a city built in the U.S. in 1942. 100,000 people lived and worked there doing very specific tasks, most of whom with no idea of what they were working towards. In 1945 they saw news reports of the atomic bombings of Japan and realised they’d been working on the bombs all along