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TIL Neil Young not only used to own a part of the Lionel LLC model train company, he also helped design the Lionel Legacy control system and his name is on seven model train-related patents.

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0w8GA TIL of Noor Inayat Khan, an Indian woman who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her service during WWII. She was the first female wireless operator to be parachuted into France to assist the French resistance. Later betrayed by a a member of the resistance, she would be executed in Dachau
WkQDN TIL that at about thirty feet underwater, blood appears green, due to red light having been filtered out by the water
gMKb9 TIL a fire station burnt down in Norfolk, England in 2014 because it didn't have sprinklers.
bdWa TIL of Charles Alvin Beckwith, creator of the U.S. Army’s Delta Force unit. He once contracted leptospirosis so severe the doctors did not expect him to live; he made a full recovery in months. He was later critically wounded by a .50 round and expected to die. Within months, he fully recovered.
8eA0G TIL an Australian rancher noticed cattle drinking rainwater that had collected in a mysterious metal object on his property which, after an investigation, turned out to be the end cap from one of Skylab’s oxygen tanks that had fallen to Earth more than a decade earlier in 1979.