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TIL the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) company's main competitor was Vanderbilt's New York Central Railroad which controlled the only rail access into Manhattan. In 1899 Alexander Cassatt came out of a 17 year retirement to head PRR and visited Paris where he was saw the first electric terminal.

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rdb4 TIL that when Marilyn Manson was asked what he would say to the students of Columbine, he replied, “I wouldn’t say a single word to them; I would listen to what they have to say, and that’s what no one did.”
KY086 TIL that the word “googol” was coined by a 9 year old
WkXEA TIL that the U.K. imports coal from the other side of the planet.
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oooA TIL in 2000, the destroyer USS The Sullivans was the target of a failed terror plot in the Port of Aden; the bombers’ suicide boat was so overloaded with explosives that it sank. The culprits were able to salvage the explosives, and 9 months later, used them to attack the USS Cole in the same port.