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TIL many trains in the UK still dump their shit directly on the tracks.

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6ODY TIL Ron Glass was the voice of Randy Carmichael, the genial neighbor and father of four children in the popular Nickelodeon cartoon series “Rugrats” and its spinoff, “All Grown Up.”
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pW48 TIL That Thomas Edison offered Nikola Tesla a $50,000 (Roughly 1,000,000 today) bonus if he could improve his dynamo design. Edison refused to pay him claiming it was a joke. Tesla quit immediately.
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