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TIL there is an abandoned particle accelerator in Texas that was supposed to be 3 times bigger than the LHC

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jNYGE TIL House Sparrows and other birds have been known to use shopping carts as Trojan Horses to enter stores.
9w01p TIL that Leni Riefenstahl had an affair with American Olympic decathlate Glenn Morris during the filming of "Olympia," Riefenstahl's documentary about the 1936 Berlin games
QNPZM TIL that Michael Giacchino wrote the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story score in 4 weeks
wodLP TIL - in 1945 a +-million landlords were executed for the crime of being landlords, and the land redistributed to the people. There was no economic/real estate/housing crash. Turns out, landlords are unnecessary.
a8NnL TIL of a place called Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky