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TIL that the United States, and not Saudi Arabia or Russia, is the largest oil producer in the world

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8RG4 TIL a Swede survived for 2 months inside a snowed-in car without food by “hibernating like a bear does”
d8AE9 TIL prolonged usage of Mystique’s blue body paint caused Rebecca Romijn’s vomit to turn blue. She threw up on Hugh Jackman after shooting tequila during their final scenes together in X-Men.
Qmde TIL An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, which are blind, are separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. The ants will eventually die of exhaustion.
7Rwr TIL that Season Two of “24” featured a terrorist plot that originated from a London mosque. A few months after the season ended, authorities raided the mosque and found that it was indeed a terrorist hub
BgM0L TIL that 75% of the images in Ikea's product catalogue were computer generated...in 2014