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TIL The Russian railway network is long enough to circumnavigate the globe more than twice

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kgr7 TIL AI researchers put a worm’s mind in a Lego body and it reacted to it’s environments without any programming. Only mapping the Neurons…
ANwRn TIL the Pony Express only existed for 18 months. The enterprise began in April of 1860 and ended in October of 1861. The subsidization and implementation of telegraph lines that began 10 weeks after the Pony Express was founded quickly made it irrelevant.
JY1El TIL: The small bow found inside of many hats is a symbolic memorial to past hatters who had died of mercury poisoning
1pmV TIL: Whiskey with an “e” comes from Ireland whilst Whisky without an “e” come from Scotland and Canada.
vPNPj TIL the theory an asteroid caused the dinosaur mass extinction did not emerge until 1980