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TIL there exists a massive abandoned supercollider in Texas.

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XEDvP TIL of the Leatherman, a vagabond who walked an annual 365 mile circuit in Connecticut and New York for over 30 years; he wore handmade leather clothes, slept in caves, and communicated with gestures in broken English, though he was fluent in French. His background, name, and origin are all unknown.
b99Y9 TIL in 1985 a drunk student hijacked a Boeing in Trondheim, Norway demanding to talk to the prime minister. He later surrendered in exchange of more beer.
8aQPL TIL that the difference between a knife and a dagger is that a dagger has a double edged blade while other knives only have the one
VB5jB TIL By the End of WW2, Canada had the 4th largest Airforce and 3rd Largest Navy in the World
jppv TIL that British engineers laid a fuel pipeline under the English channel in a single night, under cover of darkness, to supply the Allied forces in Normandy.