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TIL Amtrak Managed to Lose $833 Million Selling $9.50 Hamburgers

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9YxM TIL there is an archive of all major live television network broadcasts from 9/11 as it happened. “We can only tell you what we know – there’s been some sort of explosion at the World Trade Center.”
d06d TIL: Paris only has one stop sign in the entire city!
XLAj TIL our current model of physics only works for 4% of the matter/energy in the universe
oBDGL TIL the New England vampire panic was the reaction to an outbreak of tuberculosis in the 19th century throughout New England. Tuberculosis was thought to be caused by the deceased consuming the life of their surviving relatives.
v1ODr TIL that an African American secret service agent that guarded JFK was arrested and imprisoned on bribery charges in 1964. Coincidentally he was going to tell the Warren Commission that his fellow agents were intoxicated most of the time and had a lackadaisical approach to their job