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TIL Tame Impala’s album cover ‘The Slow Rush’ is a photo taken from an abandoned mining town called Kolmanskop

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E1Wkw TIL that now Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was instrumental in ending the 1994-95 MLB Baseball Strike
GAeeJ TIL using 160 million records, Cambridge researchers found that while much of Europe remained agricultural, British male agricultural workers fell from 64% to 42% between 1600-1740 while in goods production they increased from 28 to 42%. They date the industrial revolution as beginning in the 1600s.
g414 TIL prior to WWII, Los Angeles had one of the most advanced and efficient light rail systems in the country. This privately-run rail system was purchased by a company owned by General Motors, and slowly dismantled in order to drive demand for more cars and buses.
m1Kdp TIL: Irish Socialist James Gralton is the only Irish man to be deported from Ireland.
wL7N8 TIL that during WW2, many of the spitfire planes used in the Battle of Britain were actually privately owned aircraft purchased by companies, clubs or individuals for £5,000.