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TIL 1 in 50 Americans have an unruptured brain aneurysm.

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JY1R4 TIL China has the world's fastest high speed rail line. It connects Beijing and Shanghai (800 miles /1300 km apart, similar distance to NYC-Chicago or London-Milan) in 4.5 hrs, averaging at 180 mph / 290 kph.
9VWG TIL that the last duel in Canada was between two men who were so terrified of dueling, one fainted and the other was seized by horror. The guns were also loaded with blanks
BrG7K TIL Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison owns a Russian MiG-29. The United States government has reportedly kept Ellison from flying the MiG-29 in America because it's "considered a firearm"
OGn9L TIL that before it was "Donner and Blitzen," it was "Donder and Blitzen," and before that it was "Dunder and Blixem," which is colloquial New York Dutch meaning "Thunder and Lightning."
5ObR TIL R. Rodriguez spent only $7,225 for “El Mariachi”. He raised almost half of it by participating in experimental clinical drug testing