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TIL a gallon of gas typically costs no more than a few pennies in Venezuela.

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Y7Vnr TIL that US military pilots, after being certified to carry nuclear bombs, were issued an eye patch so that, in the event of a full-scale nuclear war, if they were blinded by a nuclear detonation they would be able to remove the eye patch and still see.
7kp TIL that many ‘Ghost Trains’ run on the British Rail Network. These trains - often unadvertised - run extremely rarely, at obscure times, through bizarre routes, purely to keep the line officially open whilst discouraging passenger use. Ghost train hunters roam the country searching for them!
aw84y Not really, but urine has been a faddish health drink for centuries nonetheless. Celts in the Iberian peninsula gargled it to whiten their teeth about 50 years before Christ; amaroli is a Sanskrit word that refers to urine therapy, which in ancient Ayurvedic practice meant imbibing urine in the morning, mid stream; Proverbs 5:15 is thought to be in support of the act ("Drink waters from thy own cistern, flowing water from thy own well"); and J.D. Salinger famously sipped his own, as did the former prime minister of India, Morarji Desai, who even appeared on 60 Minutes to defend his habit.Click here to launch a gallery about urine therapy.
gRO4 TIL the Korean Demilitarized Zone has ironically become a safe haven for plants and endangered animals.
kOoyd TIL Hiroaki Aoki moved to NYC from Japan where he would work 7 days a week in an ice cream truck he rented in Harlem. Using the $10,000 he saved from the business, he convinced his father to invest in a four-table teppanyaki restaurant which would be named "Benihana" after the red Safflower.