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random fun fact of the day

28.8k Boeing727200F  5 days ago

yeah I kinda skipped multiple days
anyways
uhhhhhhhh
(taken from wikipedia)
The French Gratitude Train (French: Train de la Reconnaissance française), commonly referred to as the Merci Train, were 49 World War I era "forty and eight" boxcars gifted to the United States by France in response to the 1947 U.S. Friendship Train. It arrived in Weehawken, New Jersey on February 2, 1949.

The idea to send a "thank you" gift to the United States for the $40 million in food and other supplies sent to France and Italy in 1947 came from a French railroad worker, and World War II veteran, named Andre Picard.[1] Donations from the Merci Train came from over six million citizens of France and Italy in the form of dolls, statues, clothes, ornamental objects, furniture, and even a Legion of Honour medal purported to have belonged to Napoleon.[2]

Alaska didn't get one funny enough
also uhhhh 43 still survive (some were scraped or trashed for no reason whatsoever)
anyways uhhhhhh
random thingy I found interesting enough to show SP
yeah
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