stackyFACTSWhen you invent an empire of cartoon mice, normal hobbies simply vanish. Walt Disney was aggressively obsessed with railways, so he laid half a mile of functional track around his Hollywood home. He routinely forced his adult guests to straddle a one-eighth-scale steam locomotive and ride it through his flowerbeds.
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Indian Railways developed an official mobile application specifically dedicated to tracking the notoriously delayed national train network in real time.…
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