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TIL A 30-ton shipment of explosive chemicals traveling from Wyoming to California by rail just up and disappeared. Kinda freaked me out.

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POOV TIL ‘Hey Arnold’ started off as a short claymation series on Sesame Street.
GjN5 TIL that US research shows that young adults aged between 20 and 24 and born in the 1990s were more than twice as likely to report that they had had no sexual partners since the age of 18 than young adults of the same age born in the 1960s
b6P0p TIL there was orchestra in Auschwitz concentration camp
5Y94B TIL "Macho Man" Randy Savage's first wrestling character was called "The Spider", based off of Spider-Man. He would later star as the villian wrestler "Bone Saw" in The Amazing Spiderman movie.
NXx4M TIL that Playing Super Mario 64 can boost memory. In a 2022 study, participants were split into 3 groups: one played the game, another took piano lessons, and the last did nothing. Those who played Mario showed improved short-term memory and increased grey matter in the cerebellum and hippocampus.