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TIL that Boeing's spacecraft are as good as their planes

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a4Vy TIL Gas is only 8 cents per gallon in Venezuela.
X0DLX TIL while the U.S. and France had similar per capita fatality rates in the 1990s, Americans today are three times as likely to die in a traffic crash
BrK9b TIL that in Buddhism, one "Aeon" is the amount of time it takes to completely erode a huge rock 16x16x16 miles in size, by brushing it with a silk cloth once a century.
g8Qb TIL Ernest Hemingway was among the first to liberate Paris during WWII BUT he went straight to his favorite bar at the Ritz, reclaimed it from Luftwaffe and spent the next week drunk
NXMl1 TIL that there is a significant population of people from the Marshall Islands living in Springdale, Arkansas, which started when one guy started working for Tyson Foods and told the people at home that there was ample employment. There's even a Marshallese consulate there.