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TiL in China a large industry developed using sewage as cooking oil.

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ADV6d TIL that people actually believe that the Nazis went to the coldest and most inaccessible place on the planet to hunt whales just before WW2 because they needed more fat for their population...
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4k0pJ TIL Leonard DaVinci wrote most of his papers backwards.
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