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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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oRDYW TIL that the United States bombed Laos with the equivalent of a planeload of bombs every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, for 9 years. That adds up to 270 million bombs total, or about 100 bombs per Laotian at the time.
46Jg TIL on 18/04/1930 on the BBC News the news was that there was no news.
bwZ TIL that in 1995 St. Jude’s Hospital got an anonymous letter containing the $1mil Monopoly piece from the McDonalds promotion game. It was mailed by the Chief of Security, at the company that organized the promotion, after major fraud was uncovered within the company.
0wKy1 TIL of Mariya Tsukanova, a Soviet medic during WW2. She saved dozens of lives, and took up a machine gun, firing until she lost consciousness from injuries. Being outnumbered, she was brutally tortured and executed by the Japanese and killed. She was named "Hero of the Soviet Union." posthumously.
Aj4g TIL Lake Toba is the largest volcanic eruption to have happened in the last 25 million years, and was believed to have killed most of the human race at the time, causing a population bottleneck which affects genetic diversity to this day.