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

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Bgpre TIL: The IRS (USA) has specific tax codes requiring you to report money earned from selling illegal drugs, taking illegal bribes, and the fair market value of anything you stole as taxable income.
dm5K TIL That when caterpillars go through metamorphosis they, essentially, melt into soup and re-form their body from there.
LWXm TIL JFK’s Harvard Application Essay Only Has 5 Sentences
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NKeb TIL the Toyota War was the end phase of the Libyan-Chadian war where the Chadian army and its Toyota pickups destroyed 92 T-55 battle tanks, 33 BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles, and 784 soldiers while only losing 18 men and three trucks.