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

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B7ar TIL Highlighters are typically yellow because it is the color that doesn’t leave a shadow on the page when photocopied
5VGKp TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte has no surviving legitimate descendants, but has descendants through his two illegitimate sons, Charles Léon and Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, and may have had other illegitimate children.
78xGL TIL that the Wendel Family was an eccentric and reclusive New York real estate dynasty in the 19th and early 20th centuries. They wore outdated Victorian clothing and refused to install modern utilities. Ella, the last surviving sibling, was famous for her many poodles, all named Toby.
0d745 TIL the fastest speed ever registered by a male while downhill skiing backwards is 82.92 mph (133.46 km/h) achieved by Anders Backe in Vikersund, Buskerud, Norway earlier this year.