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TIL there exists a massive abandoned supercollider in Texas.

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WlD8 TIL the US Embassy in Moscow caught fire in 1977. Sensitive information was stolen by several firefighters who were also KGB agents.
OGYKX TIL The US Geologic Survey analyzes twitter data that can often identify earthquakes faster than their own sensors as well as filter out false positives from their sensors.
VBYwm TIL aparon is a Filipino snack made from unconsecrated communion wafers and caramel. They were first manufactured by a religious order who needed a way to make use of of extra wafers.
R5ZB7 TIL in 2004, Polaroid issued a statement advising people to do not actually shake your Polaroid pictures because shaking them would ruin them, shortly after the release of the song 'Hey Ya!' by OutKast and the song's lyrics "shake it like a Polaroid picture"
kJ6wm TIL Philippe Peythieu is the French voice of Homer Simpson and dubs Danny Devito.