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TIL the Las Vegas Strip is located in Paradise
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TIL about the Merci Train - a collection of 49 boxcars sent by France to the United States in response to humanitarian aid provided after World War II. Each state barring Alaska got their own, and 43 still survive today.
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TIL the T.V. show "The Simpsons" was originally meant to be set in Springfield, Oregon. The show's creator Matt Groening decided he liked the idea of a town that is ambiguous about its state, so he didn't keep that aspect of the lore.
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TIL Mark Twain came into and then left this world on successive Halley’s Comet appearances, and predicted that day as the date of his death.
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TIL the Gulf Cartel criminal organization is currently headquartered in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, a town directly across the U.S. border from Brownsville, Texas.
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TIL Of a mechanism from Ancient Greece, similar to an analogue computer, where you could input data and it would give you the planets and stars positions, and could foresee eclipses and moon phases.