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TIL that the vast majority of passenger trains (85%) and most freight trains (55%) worldwide are electric, however, electric trains account for less than 1% of all US rail traffic.

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grRnA TIL that our current year 2025 is the sum of the first 9 cubes; 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³=2025
kOrOg TIL that between 2014 and 2016 an Australian electrician bunked off work roughly 140 times to play golf, covering his tracks using a crisp packet as a Faraday cage to block an electronic tracker that would have pinpointed his location.
7VwP TIL that Hugh Thomson, the man who during the Vietnam War had landed a helicopter in the line of fire to confront and stop American troops who had by that point killed close to 500 unarmed civilians in the My Lai Massacre, was labeled a traitor by Congress and ordered not to speak about the event.
xVLWg TIL Ducks should be fed frozen peas instead of bread.
JY01l TIL cats cannot taste sugar.