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TIL: Bookworms are real insects that eat book pages

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X9AQ TIL Venezuela has more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia but produces less than a forth of what Saudi produces per year.
9Y47r TIL the largest electric vehicle on Earth, a monster dump truck, never has to recharge because it moves uphill empty but downhill full, and regenerative braking with a full load provides enough electricity for it to go uphill again.
groW TIL 20 crew and passengers died in a plane crash when a crocodile, being smuggled by one of the passengers in a sports bag, freed itself and panicked the passengers who all ran towards the flightdeck. The Filair L-410 Turbolet unbalanced and crashed. The crocodile survived.
j6MvQ TIL that Lady Gaga has revealed director Quentin Tarantino told her to use the pussy wagon in her music video. The yellow truck - originally used in Tarantino's 2003 movie Kill Bill Vol. 1 - makes a cameo appearance in the nine-minute video for 'Telephone'.
8aOZP TIL that in 1987, an undercover FBI agent approached 106 New York City officials with offers of various kinds of bribes. 105 officials accepted the bribe. The 106th official refused, because he wanted a bigger bribe.