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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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6jgw TIL that Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson visited the US in 1965 and made a speech criticizing American foreign policy; the next day, President Lyndon Johnson invited him to Camp David, grabbed him by the lapels, and said, “Don’t you come into my living room and piss on my rug.”
OGEEY TIL Cerveza Chango (Chango Beer) is a fictional beer brand that shows up in the movies Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn and Sin City all directed by Robert Rodriguez.
KOnyJ TIL in 2021, someone leaked a memo which alerted the public to the existence of a mysterious neurological disease that first appeared in 2013, and indiscriminately effects dozens of people exclusively in New Brunswick. It's officially called "New Brunswick Neurological syndrome of Unknown Cause"
5Y5A8 TIL during the filming of Matilda, Danny Devito and Rhea Perlman; who played Matilda’s parents; would take Mara Wilson on outings with their family to help the actress cope with her mother’s battle, and eventual death, from cancer.
lowxA TIL: Of the 22 people voted to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, 15 of them are are now either banned from FIFA for life, suspended, imprisoned, or fighting extradition to the USA to face federal charges. Only one still actually works for FIFA