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TIL that 75% of the US’s oil comes from North and South America, not the Middle East.

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Be8k TIL That a woman in Ohio was sentenced by a judge to sit in the “smelliest area” of a garbage dump for 8 hours, for neglecting her pet. “If you puke, you puke.”
mmRY TIL The US Government produced $2.10 pistol called the FP-45 Liberator in 1942 ($30 in 2013) to be used by resistance fighters during WWII in Europe. 500,000 were produced and are considered very collectible today.
aw7wJ TIL that the loudest word ever shouted was "quiet". It was recorded in 1994 by an Irish schoolteacher and was 121.7 decibels.
oRl7E Today I Learned Matt Berry Did Voiceover Work For Warms: Revolution In 2012
Z8dra TIL that the woman behind the Columbia Pictures image, Jenny Joseph, never modeled before & after that image.