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TIL that in 1975, Morgantown, WV (Pop. 30,000) built a personal rapid transit system that comes at the push of a button, skips the stations you don’t want and is still carrying 15,000 people/day today

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X0V86 TIL Orval Faubus, who had opposed the integration of the Little Rock Nine as Governor of Arkansas, later endorsed civil rights activist Jesse Jackson for President in 1984 and 1988.
nepAo TIL Mohandas Gandhi is one of the strongest symbols of non-violence in the 20th century. It is widely held – in retrospect – that the Indian national leader should have been the very man to be selected for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was nominated several times, but was never awarded the prize.
JYBjV TIL British minister Alan Clark once dismissed his colleague Michael Heseltine as the kind of person "who bought his own furniture" (as opposed to someone with 'breeding' who inherits furniture).
E17Gw TIL that the Mortal Kombat series used smashed vegetables to make many of its gruesome sound effects
Me5v8 TIL that in 2000 a doctor was driven from her home by vandals who were confused between paedophile and paediatrician and thought she was a child molester.