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TIL there are ferries designed to transport entire railcars. Train Ferries allow for passenger and freight trains to directly roll on/off the ship from rails.

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8PPV TIL during the Battle of Iwo Jima, Hospital Corpsman John Willis was treating a fallen Marine in a mortar crater when a grenade landed at his feet. He returned the grenade, followed by 7 others thrown by the enemy in rapid succession, all while administering blood plasma. The 9th grenade killed him.
gMbL8 TIL During the making of the 1942 German movie 'The Great Love' unable to find background extras who matched the height of the lead actress Zarah Leander, SS guards were brought in and dressed up as women and used instead.
n91o TIL that due to a compressed air leak, a worker in a subway tunnel under New York City’s East River was blown out of the tunnel, through the mud at the bottom of the river, up through the water, and 25 feet or so into the air. He received no serious injury.
OGV71 TIL that the $8B nail salon industry—and its prevalence of Vietnamese proprietors—can be traced back to Tippi Hedren, the famous leading actress from "The Birds" and "Marnie"
5Y0aD TIL Isaac Newton wrote thousands of pages on his interpretation of the Bible, and in those manuscripts he predicted that the world would end no sooner than the year 2060.