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TIL that the US is actually a net exporter of oil and petroleum products.

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wodl1 TIL about Boustrophedon, a style of writing in which alternate lines of writing are reversed, with letters also written in reverse, mirror-style.
6pvY TIL that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was initially called “Operation Iraqi Liberation”, but was quickly changed to “Operation Iraqi Freedom” due to the acronym spelling out “OIL”.
dDQAK TIL a filmmaker made a 10-hour movie of paint drying, forcing the British ratings board to sit through it to give it a classification in protest of film censorship.
LNXd TIL that among captured and confessed terrorists, engineers and engineering students are significantly overrepresented.
gdY9 TIL The same 9,500 person town in Oregon was the filming location for The Goonies, Kindergarten Cop, Free Willy I and II, The Ring Two, and The Guardian, along with others, and it was where the TV Show Dexter was set to end.