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TIL there exists a massive abandoned supercollider in Texas.

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9gRD 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
W7vAL TIL in February of 2013 the Emergency Alert Systems of stations in Montana and Michigan were breached to play a zombie apocalypse warning, using the lines "Civil authorities in your area have reported bodies of the dead are rising from the graves and attacking the living".
5jNp TIL that in 1995 Liam Neeson turned down the role of James Bond (Goldeneye) because “he has never been interested in starring in action movies”
Z8VGY TIL that following LeBron James' decision to leave Cleveland and join the Miami Heat, the sports memorabilia company Fathead lowered the price of wall graphics depicting James from $99.99 to $17.41: the birth year of infamous American traitor Benedict Arnold
4eVb TIL the US is the same size as the entire continent of Europe with half the population