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TIL if absolutely anything happens on a RR crossing, there's a box with a phone number to call to shut down the area

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yQYB8 TIL that a man tracked down a kid and strangles him over Call of Duty.
yLev TIL that there is a growing problem with keeping parrots as pets. As they are not domesticated, and their lifespan can be up to 70+ years, thousands are abandoned over the years. Incidentally, this problem increased when more people wanted to have an intelligent parrot like Alex as a pet.
POAn TIL German monks living off nothing but beer during Lent felt guilty because it tasted so good. So they brought the beer to Rome for the Popes approval of the practice. But on the journey it went bad. Pope tasted it. Pope hated it. Monks were allowed to have it for Lent.