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TIL that the movie Soylent Green was set in 2022.

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wLJgJ TIL the US has 727M barrels of oil hidden in underground salt caverns
X0L5j TIL that if the universe is finite, then we could travel on a spaceship and after a very long time we would eventually come back to be same place that we started.
YjKW TIL George Lucas ‘ideally would love not to see any footage [of the newest Star Wars film: The Force Awakens] until he walks into the theater next December. He has never been able to be surprised by a Star Wars film before and he said he was looking forward to it.’
OGLQY TIL Abracadabra is of unknown origin, the first known mention of the word was in the second century AD by a physician to the Roman emperor who prescribed that malaria sufferers should wear an amulet containing Abracadabra written in the form of a triangle.
loQDN TIL that your nose only breathes using one nostril at a time, and that the nostril in use switches every few hours. This "nasal cycle" is dictated by the same system that regulates heart rate and other unconscious bodily functions and is the reason why only one nostril gets stuffy at a time.