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TIL that in 2019, for the first time in over sixty years, the United States exported more energy than it imported.

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Z8Z0R TIL an IKEA in the Netherlands had to cancel their 1 euro breakfast special because it attracted too many customers and caused traffic jams on the highway.
xMGD TIL the average female killer whale lives 50-60 years, but ‘Granny’, a 104-year-old Killer whale, was recently spotted off Canada’s west coast in 2014 w/ her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren!
Oo7PX TIL of Trinitite, a synthetic mineral born in the heat of a nuclear blast
QNGE9 TIL of Propaganda Due, an Italian masonic lodge founded in 1877 that by 1980s became known as the “a state within a state” responsible for high-level corruption and political manipulation.
jNmGN TIL: Plastic bags were created to be reusable to reduce waste and save the planet, saving trees from being chopped down for paper bags