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TIL the 2015 Neiman Marcus holiday catalog features a $150,000 motorcycle that comes with a 2-day ride along the California Coast with Keanu Reeves

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rRbYx TIL a "bottle episode" in TV, in which characters sit around and talk for an entire episode, was created to save money and/or time, as in "we pulled that episode out of a bottle like a genie." Today it is revered, and shows like Seinfeld, Friends and Always Sunny have turned it into an art
PYQZ TIL that there are three underwater rock formations in the Bahamas that are made of roughly rectangular limestone blocks and look like straight roads.
xVKe5 TIL that David Hahn, the "Radioactive Boy Scout" was arrested in 2007 when someone saw him stealing a smoke detector. A search of his apartment found 16 more. Smoke detectors were one of the items he used to get the radioactive material to build the breeder reactor in his mom's shed in 1994.
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gMXQ8 TIL about US government "doomsday planes." They have 5,000+ sq ft of office space, three floors, 57 cases of MRE's, and each window has an EMP shielding grid.