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TIL 5 billion bushels (125 billion kg) of corn is used annually for fuel alcohol in the USA.

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XEkAD TIL that after 9/11, Martin Scorcese was pressured to remove the Twin Towers seen in the ending of the 2002 movie "Gangs Of New York". Scorsese chose to keep the scene in, saying that "The people in the film ... were part of the creation of that skyline, not the destruction of it."
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