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TIL The Earth Is Running Out of Sand, Spurring a Cutthroat Black Market

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X0Apj TIL that airliners use 1 gallon of gas each second!
p8bE8 TIL that Simpsons episode where Krustyburger nearly goes bankrupt from giving out free burgers when USA won gold medals is based on fact, and this actually happened with McDonald's when the USSR boycotted the 1984 games
PGpE TIL that when David Copperfield and his assistants were held up at gunpoint, he used sleight of hand to conceal his possessions from the robber
49lX TIL the Wizard of Oz filmmakers used a white horse and sponged it down with different colors of Jell-O crystals to create the “horse-of-a-different-color.” The horse made it difficult to film as it wanted to lick the crystals off itself.
VMxGZ TIL: Norway and Senegal are the only national football teams that have never lost against Brazil (Norway has won twice and drawn twice)