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TIL that there are hidden wine cellars that run beneath the expanse of the Brooklyn Bridge. Though no longer in use, they were created to help supplement the building costs as merchants would pay to store expensive bottles in the always cool vaults.

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X0DLr TIL about the Higgs boson, also known as 'the God particle', an elementary particle which is responsible for granting other particles their mass. Its existence was first proposed in the 1960's, but evidence for the particle would only be found in 2012, by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider.
A4dw TIL that when the CIA opened a Twitter account, their first tweet was “We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.”
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kOZoE TIL the Arizona Cardinals, an NFL franchise, are older than the state of Arizona. The Cardinals have been in continuous operation since 1898, while Arizona became a state in 1912.
5Yrg9 TIL It took three botched attempts to behead Mary Queen of Scots for treason against Queen Elizabeth. The executioner finally lifted the bloodied head cried "God Save the Queen" only for it to crash to the floor as Mary had been wearing a wig.