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TIL in 1970 you could travel between DC and NYC by train in 2 hours and 30 minutes for $12.75. Today it takes Amtrak’s high-speed Acela 3 hours and it costs $158.

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MBQm TIL of the Slave-Making Ant. They capture and enslave the young of other species of ants.However, some species of the captured ants have been noted to rebel overtime, toppling the nest of their captors and putting up their own Queen as a new ruler.
xVAND TIL the stereotype of a witch riding a broomstick may come from historic witches straddling hallucinogenic substance-coated brooms naked to apply the drugs to their vaginas
rN1Yd TIL The highest point in all of the British Isles is only 4,409 feet above sea level, at Ben Nevis in Scotland.
KYr9J TIL Emperor Nero added events such as poetry, singing, acting and playing the lyre into the Olympics in 67 AD and declared himself the winner in all of them. He also 'claimed' victory in four-horse chariot race despite entering with ten horses and getting injured when he was thrown from his chariot.
R5Z0a TIL in the 1940s, Dr. John C. Cutler led US-funded syphilis experiments in Guatemala, secretly infecting prisoners and patients, including a terminally ill woman, to study penicillin. Justified as "for the greater good," it remained hidden until 2010 when the US government issued a formal apology.