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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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E1lAX TIL that the band Guster tried to thwart "pirates" on Napster by uploading a version of their album Keep It Together that replaced real vocals with fake cat meows.
4k4Yo TIL Avro Vulcan bomber pilots, on nuclear missions, would wear a standard black eyepatch to protect one eye from the flash of a nuclear bomb. Taking it off once they were blinded in the exposed eye.
aryy TIL that a killer whale at the Miami Seaquarium named Hugo, committed suicide by repeatedly bashing his head into the walls of his tank.
N7Mb TIL that a star called R136a1 is the most massive (265 solar masses) and most luminous (8,700,000 times the luminosity of the Sun) star known.
JYm58 TIL of Inuka, a polar bear who was born at the Singapore Zoo in 1990. He was the first and only polar bear to be born in the tropics.