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TIL Mumbai's commuter rail system can get so crowded that trains can reach 14-16 people standing per square meter. On average, 2000 people die annually on the rail network.

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xVlxk TIL our Sun orbits around the galaxy's center with a period of approx. 200 million years. We were last at our relative position in the galaxy around the time of the dinosaurs. In the entirety of modern man's existence, we have completed 0.1% of a circuit.
gZx4 TIL - that an explorer and adventurer went missing in the Amazon in 1925 searching for El Dorado. Since then, around 100 people have died trying to find him, and as recently as 1996 an expedition to find his remains only got out after paying a ransom to their Kalapalo captors.
4kMg5 Til - the Bagger 288 has a larger 'sibling', the Bagger 293 is 5m longer and 700 tons heavier.
16yMd TIL: In 1992-1993, while on the run from authorities, Pablo Escobar and his family were hiding in the mountains of Colombia. During one freezing night, his daughter complained about being cold. To keep her warm, and without any other material, Escobar burned $2 million worth stacks of cash
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