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TIL that the largest underground shopping complex in the world is over 30km long, and is in Toronto, Canada.

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5Ron TIL that in 1970, Bill Murray cracked a joke to another passenger at O'Hare International Airport about carrying a bomb in his suitcase. A ticket agent who overheard the joke summoned the US Marshalls. They didn’t find explosives in the bag, but instead found 10 pounds of weed.
YZbx TIL Intel employs a “futurist” whose job is to determine what it would be like to live 10 or 15 years into the future
emr4 TIL Tobacco is fertilized with radioactive apatite, the radiation received from smoking a pack a day per year compares to receiving 2,000 modern chest x-rays a year.
EgGax TIL when John Steinbeck published The Grapes Of Wrath in 1939, a farm worker with two leaders of California Associated Farmers publicly burned a copy of the book because he did not like what he heard about it, even though he had not read it. After reading it years later, he said he “had no regrets.”
9eM6 TIL that North Korea made their own Netflix service…and it’s called Manbang