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TIL that the price of Gasoline in the US is half of the average price in the EU

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EZVP TIL that during the filming of Star Wars Episode IV, studio executives were apparently unhappy that Chewbacca’s character had no clothes and wanted to have the costume redesigned to have shorts.
YpLgW TIL when President Polk asked Congress to declare war on Mexico citing that it had "shed American blood upon the American soil", then-Representative Abraham Lincoln protested with resolutions demanding to know the "particular spot of soil on which the blood of our citizens was so shed."
e0gVn TIL Spongebob is canonically asexual
Oovag TIL: One person, the not-well-known General Leslie Groves, oversaw both the Manhattan Project (the WWII program to make an atomic bomb) and the construction of The Pentagon. An underling called him both "the biggest S.O.B. I have ever worked for" & the best possible person to run the A-bomb project.
X01rX TIL that when Ohio was added as a state in 1803, Congress forgot to ratify it’s constitution. Technically, Ohio wasn’t officially granted statehood until 1953.