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TIL despite maximum speed of 200 mph and carrying over 10 billion passengers, there hasn't been a single recorded fatality from the Japanese Bullet Train

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nO97 TIL of Peter Stumpp who confessed to being a werewolf, having sex with a succubus, eating fetus’ ripped from their mother’s belly’s, and making a pact with the Devil. He killed 18 people and was executed.
raEd TIL that thanks to relatively few traffic lights, lots of roundabouts, and a very intensive driver training requirement, the UK has the lowest road death (per capita) of any country in the developed world.
R9Qw TIL Before a hurricane, Walmart will fill their stores with strawberry poptarts. This is a result from their data mining and finding stores sold 7x more strawberry poptarts before the storm.
DY4D TIL that in 1996 MTV nominated Nick Cave for “Best Male Artist.” He asked that they withdraw the nomination, which they did.
a8AvA TIL The origin of 10,000 steps a day started as a marketing slogan by a Japanese company when they made the world's first pedometer in the 1960s named Manpo-kei, or “10,000 steps meter." The science behind 10,000 steps a day is based on this catchy ad.