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TIL That the biggest oil spill in US history was the Lakeview Gusher.....Lasted 18 months and spilled 9 million barrels of oil.

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new0B TIL of the difference between the Italian "Macaroon" (coconut merengues) and the French "Macaron" (merengue-cream sandwich)
pwXp TIL Diamonds are not actually rare.
LQbpP TIL Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute at Ohio State University is not named after the confederate general, but the American playwright of the same name. His wife voiced many Hanna Barbara characters.
nDoo TIL Twix has slumped in size from 60g in the 1980s to 58g in the 2000s to 50g in 2015
mxwEo TIL The Japanese were planning a biological warfare attack on San Diego, California before the atomic bombs forced them to surrender in WWII