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TIL 99% of consumer grade fireworks are made in China

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5VwDP TIL that Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth. Saturn’s moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to Cassini data.
lKP7 TIL ancient human ancestor Homo erectus ate cooked food as long ago as 1.9 million years
jgdn TIL the makers of the ‘Airplane!’ and “Naked Gun” movies bought a horse just to make a joke. They named the horse All Pink and instructed the jockey not to win but to stay on the inside rail the whole race just to hear the play-by-play announcer say “Its All Pink on the inside”.
LQRk0 TIL in 2009 a man hid a bomb inside his anus in an attempt to assassinate saudi prince Muhammad bin Nayef, which was described as "a novel technique". Even though he got within hand-shake distance from the prince, his body absorbed most of the blast, so Bin Nayef was only slightly injured
Yp9JP TIL that Mount Saint Elias lies on the border of Alaska and Yukon and it's the second highest mountain in both the USA and Canada because only Denali is higher in the US and only Mount Logan is higher in Canada