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TIL that in addition to Deepwater Horizon, BP was also responsible for the infamous Texas Refinery explosion that killed 15 and injured 180. Both were a result of budget cuts to safety and training.

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gMWg4 TIL Ringo Starr featured in a Japanese apple juice commercial because his name sounded like 'Ringo Sutta' , meaning grated apple in Japanese.
OoxZX TIL the German city of Frankfurt Am Main supplies heroin addicts with clean needles and tolerates the consumption of drugs in "shooting galeries" around the central station to control the city's drug scene. This approach is called the "Frankfurt way".
loKoG TIL: Hebrew was a dead language for about 1400 years, surviving only in written form. In the 1880s, Jewish linguists attempted to revive it, standardizing and developing Hebrew as a spoken language. Today, it has over 5 million native speakers.
XJwE TIL of the existence of the short-lived Florida-based nation State of Muskogee, which was founded in 1799 in an attempt to resist the expansion of the United States with the assistance of southeastern native tribes
ByEK TIL that it is not illegal to fix a sporting event for profit-driven but non-gambling schemes such as clandestine manipulation for the purpose of increasing suspense, viewer engagement and advertisement effectiveness