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TIL US has actually HSR running at max speed 240kmph, though its average speed is only 135kmph

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6EPgW TIL Beyoncé’s hit “If I were a boy” it’s not original and was released as a single without the author’s permission. The “terms” that Beyonce had come to with were to allow to do a duet together if BC Jean the author of the song were to get her own record deal. That has not happened yet for Jean.
Wk6eL TIL that archaeologists found fragments of 300 year old paper in the wreck of Blackbeard's ship, and traced them to the book they came from.
wo8O6 TIL The Statue of Unity is the world's tallest statue, with a height of 182 metres (597 feet)
JNEj TIL Thrasyllus of Mendes commented on Caligula saying he had “no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae”. After he became emperor, Caligula constructed a temporary bridge across the Baiea using ships as pontoons and rode his horse across.
yV5nJ TIL that the Fountains of Bellagio, the Dubai Fountain and Singapore airport's Rain Vortex were all made by the same company, WET. The founders are former Disney Imagineers