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e0P0b TIL Amtrak trains that are running on time stop in their tracks during fall daylight savings time and wait an hour before resuming. For spring forward, the trains automatically fall behind schedule at 2 a.m. and just have to do their best to make up the time
ANGx TIL that female ducks have evolved a complex vagina with several dead-end pockets and tunnels in order to confuse unwanted mates and prevent fertilisation from the wrong male
0dmgR TIL In China, for many village women, marriage is the primary means of changing their lives. Most of them marry up - moving from the mountain areas to the plains, from the villages to towns and cities, and from the poorer classes to the richer.
9wNdm TIL in 2013 a team of snipers destroyed 17 electrical transformers at the Metcalf Transmission Substation in CA, described as a 'professional job' using 'military-style weapons.' Fiber optic cables were cut prior to the attack and no suspects have ever been publicly identified.
wollW TIL there was a DC character from the 80s who got his powers from cocaine. His only weakness was cocaine addiction.