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TIL that Cushing, OK - pop. 8,427 - is the largest oil-storage tank farm in the world. It has about 350 tanks, operated by multiple companies, with a total of 73 million barrels of working capacity, and controls oil prices globally.

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e07Bg TIL that after British ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died, a campaign was started to bring "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" from "The Wizard of Oz"to the top of the music charts. It sold over 50,000 copies and entered at Number Two.
6975m TIL in 1990 NASA turned the Galileo spacecraft towards Earth to look for signs of life
M7GJW TIL in 2016 two would-be robbers wore aluminum foil head-to-toe during an attempted bank robbery in Brazil because they thought doing so would prevent the alarm's detectors from noticing them. However what they failed to notice were the internal security cameras capturing their every move.
DeyV TIL: If you search Google maps for Yucca Flat Airport and zoom out, you can see dozens of nuclear bomb craters from underground testing
loxaN TIL The town of Salem, New Jersey once held a trial against tomatoes in 1820 because of the widespread belief they were poisonous. The case ended after Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson ate a basket of tomatoes without ill consequence.