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TIL One of the few remaining trams which survived the Hiroshima bomb has been restored to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack. It has been repainted its original colours - blue and grey - and has video testimony from survivors on board

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OG88a TIL that USPS must deliver to every address in the USA, including a remote community in the Grand Canyon where the mail is delivered by mule.
W76DL TIL that in Tok Pisin, the English-based creole language spoken by millions in Papua New Guinea, the vocabularly is often unrecognizably shifted in meaning from English, for example: "as ples" [ass place -> place of origin], "maus gras" [mouth grass -> moustache], or "belhat" [belly hot -> angry]
wV6W TIL that the first cardiologist to perform an open heart surgery was African-American, Daniel Hale Williams, and performed the surgery in 1893 on James Cornish, who was also African American.
v184L TIL: The Vikings Beat Columbus To America By Nearly 500 Years (And Were Repeatedly Repelled By Native Peoples)
rNEV1 TIL Einstein’s brain was stolen by a doctor during the autopsy after his death. The doctor kept it for 50 years, gave pieces of it to colleagues and kept it in a closet