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b6pl9 TIL about the Roughnecks of Sherwood Forest. They were American oil drillers who traveled from Oklahoma to the UK and helped contribute over one million barrels of much-needed oil to fuel the war effort against Germany during WWII. This oil was crucial to the Allies' victory over the Axis powers.
Mej7B TIL the Apollo moonshot rocket was fueled by kerosene
rR4Y4 TIL we tried fracking with nukes in the 60s, and only stopped because the gas was too radioactive to use