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TIL there are 45 different types of gas produced in the USA significantly reducing efficiency and raising the price at the pump.

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8eeO4 TIL That "Barker’s Beauties," the models on The Price is Right, did not have contracts, but were were rehired on a week-to-week basis to keep their salaries low.
0AlN TIL Mike Myers was sued by Universal Pictures for $3.8 million for backing out of a contract for a feature film. Myers said he refused to honour the $20 million contract because he did not want to cheat moviegoers with his poorly written script.
oRPGY TIL that Black Pepper starts as a green stone fruit and was popularized in the 15th century when the Portuguese explorer Vasco De Gama located it growing on the shores of India
9Y18Q TIL that according to an analysis of 1.6 billion words from 41,829 issues of 132 newspapers from 1830 to 1860, George Washington's 1796 Farewell Address was still "going viral" nearly half a century after it was first published
YpkYG TIL that during the 80’s, drunken calls to Hanna-Barbera studios from Flintstones fans curious to know what Barney Rubble did for a living were so common that the security guard in charge of answering the phones at night would simply reply: ‘‘ He worked in the quarry’’.