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TIL that Tibet is full of oil and gas resources.

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wLJEo TIL New York City won 8 World Series in a row from 1949 to 1956.
aYN9 TIL that the same man invented heroin and aspirin.
EY1p TIL each suit in a deck of cards represents the four seasons, the 13 represent 13 lunar months, the 52 cards represent the 52 weeks in a year, and all the cards added up is 364 days (for lunar year).
Yn1W TIL, that Patrick Stewart was initially considered for the role of Data, and it took weeks of discussion with Robert Justman, Rick Berman, and the casting director to convince Roddenberry that Stewart was the one they had been looking for to sit in the Captain’s chair.
mxEJP TIL the Airbus A340 has been in service for over 26 years and has not had a single fatality