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TIL Oil consumption is now below 1995 levels and the US is moving away from oil

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amYZ TIL that any domino can knock over another object up to 1.5x its size due to gravitational potential energy. In 29 dominoes, the last domino would be as tall as the Empire State Building, irrespective of first domino is so tiny (5 millimeters tall and only 1 millimeter thick).
LyMd TIL In 1986, a team of Canadian researchers exhumed the body of William Brane, a sailor who died 140 years earlier during the Franklin Expedition of 1846. After being removed from the permafrost and thawed, the body was still flexible, and intestinal flora were found still living inside.
OoYO6 TIL Like smallpox, Polio is on its way out with 22 cases worldwide in 2017
WkQoN TIL Paul Simon sent David Draiman an email praising Disturbed's performance of The Sound of Silence
7oVb TIL that in high school, Chris Paul’s grandfather was murdered on the eve of his season opener. He went on to score 61 points, one for each year his grandfather lived.