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TIL a coal mine in China operated steam powered trains as recently as 2022, and that new steam locomotives were produced well into the 80s and 90s

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m1XWO TIL a Kentucky man was awarded $450,000 in a lawsuit against his ex-employers who purportedly terminated him due to a panic attack he had at his surprise birthday party, causing him to leave.
ANlJ7 TIL there are as many smokers in China as as there are people in the United States
e0KN4 TIL Lord Admiral Edward Russel had a 17th century officers party, that included a garden fountain as a punch bowl. The mixture included 250 gallons of brandy, 125 gallons of Malaga wine, 1,400 pounds of sugar, 2,500 lemons, 20 gallons of lime juice, and 5 pounds of nutmeg.
Oo8kX One night in 1987, a Canadian man named Kenneth Parks drove for 14 miles from his house to his in-laws. He then broke in and made his way upstairs, bludgeoning his mother-in-law with a crowbar that he’d gotten from the boot of his car before stabbing her repeatedly to death. He then proceeded to choke and stab his father-in-law, who miraculously survived. Parks then drove himself to the police station and turned himself in. It sounds like a fairly cut and dry murder case, but after going to trial, Kenneth Parks walked free. Thanks to a combination of a lack of motive, his consistent version of events, and data gathered from EEG readings, no charges were pressed against him because all evidence pointed to the unlikely and bewildering truth that Parks had been sleepwalking. It remains one of the most remarkable cases of homicidal sleepwalking in history.
7r8DM TIL the most expensive painting in the world, recently sold at an auction for $450m, was bought in 2005 for just $10k.