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TIL in WW2, the British had the only miniature armoured train in the world, which they ran on the 13.5 mile Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway.

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6EgnJ TIL the deadliest fire in US history, the Peshtigo Fire is largely forgotten because it happened on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire.
VBrjp TIL that until the Civil War, American currency was made only the form of silver or gold coins. Though the colonial Continental Congress briefly issued paper currency, it wasn't until 1862 that Congress authorized the use of paper currency as legal tender for any debts
ypQJ TIL Charles Redheffer was an American inventor who claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine, He was later exposed when an engineer found a hidden cord that led to an upper floor. Upstairs he found an old man who was turning a hand-crank with one hand and eating bread with the other
d8KOQ TIL that the fade-out at the end of Holst's Neptune was achieved by slowly closing the door on a female choir as they sang in another room.
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