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TIL A Particle Accelerator with 5x the Power of the Large Hadron Collider was planned in Texas but was scrapped due to budget concerns

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OoWb7 TIL the oldest known symbolic burial site was found in a cave, south of the modern day city of Nazareth, where a nine-year old was found buried with their legs bent and a deer antler cradled in their arms. The site was dated to circa 92,000 BP, making it about 95,000 years old.
PYKkE TIL a 34-yr-old French-UK woman named Emma Perrier was catfished by a 53-yr-old UK man who was using a 35-yr-old Turkish model's photos. She tracked down the real model, Adem Guzel, they hit it off via FaceTime; about a year later, he flew to London and they became a couple.
4Xjo5 TIL about 'Pteridomania', a Victorian craze for ferns. Numerous ferneries appeared across the countries, with the fern motif 'appearing on everything from christening presents to gravestones and memorials', and even custard cream biscuits.
4xPb TIL that an amino acid found in protein rich foods called Tryptophan is converted into serotonin and can help lessen symptoms of withdrawal in addicts. Addicts can literally be aided in recovery with cold turkey.
8wNL TIL Usain Bolt ate 1,000 chicken mcnuggets over 10 days at the Beijing Olympics.