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TIL the original Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963) in New York enabled direct rail access to New York City from the south for the first time. It was considered a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style and one of the great architectural works of NYC. Its loss galvanized the historic preservation movement

by whatilearned July 19, 2022, 3:22 am

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A man found a woman tied to the rail tracks and untied her.

by cringeyjokesman July 13, 2022, 4:49 pm

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Ahead of Planned Rail Line, Archaeologists Uncover Early Medieval Cemetery

by HistoryBuff June 26, 2022, 2:24 am

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TIL that the Aldabra white-throated rail has evolved back into existence TWICE. The rail is an example of a rarely observed phenomenon called iterative evolution, in which the same ancestral lineage produces parallel offshoot species at different points in time.

by whatilearned June 14, 2022, 4:06 am

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TIL that Spain has the longest high speed rail network in Europe and is second in the world behind China.

by whatilearned May 15, 2022, 11:54 am

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Please Rail Me

by CopyPastaArchive March 5, 2022, 8:04 am

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TIL the reason public trams died out in American cities is because they were forced to subsidize infrastructure for cars and allow them to use tram-lines as roads thereby slowing down all rail networks, making them uncompetitive.

by whatilearned February 9, 2022, 4:05 pm

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Should I Get a Rail on my AK?

by CopyPastaArchive January 20, 2022, 9:34 pm

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TIL A Japanese rail company once apologised when a train left its station 25 seconds early. The operator said, “the great inconvenience we placed upon our customers was truly inexcusable”.

by whatilearned January 14, 2022, 1:29 am

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Actually, Ralsei’s age isn’t actually disclosed in the game and I don’t think you should be spreading lies like this. I should legally be able to rail Ralsei’s fat fucking goat ass and if you think you can stop me you got another thing coming. I’m cumming, inside Ralsei, right now, try to stop me. J

by CopyPastaArchive October 2, 2021, 8:00 am

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TIL that in USSR they literally moved high-story buildings by rail. Some of them weighed more than 20,000 tons.

by whatilearned September 5, 2021, 8:40 am

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A man who had worked for British Rail in a small village for many years decided it was time to move up in the world… [long]

by cringeyjokesman September 5, 2021, 4:59 am

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