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TIL that modern diesel trains can move a ton of freight 492 miles on a single gallon of gas.

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A6Nn TIL Sylvester Stallone’s uncompromising character John Rambo committed suicide in the original cut of First Blood (1982). This was changed because it was considered too depressing, and the new ending allowed for the later big-budget sequels.
4X1b6 TIL Loki got piped by a horse.
X07ER TIL: Snails can sleep for up to three years at a time without the need to eat
x68B TIL Joseph Kittinger’s hand swelled to twice its normal size after there was a malfunction of the pressurization in his right glove during his freefall from 102,800 feet
0nWA TIL that in World War One, on the Russian front, wounded soldiers were often eaten alive by wolves