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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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drwE TIL Queen Victoria was fluent in Urdu and Hindi.
4Jl6 TIL in 1887, it was made illegal in Canada to attempt to try to get a woman under 21 years old to have sex with you by promising you would marry her if she did. Punishments for this crime included imprisonment and whipping.
pOK8 TIL that four years ago a 71 year old man cared for and nursed a beached penguin back to health and now the bird consistently travels 2,000+ miles every few months to revisit his caregiver.
9K8M TIL that carrots used in canned soup are specially-bred giant carrots the size of baseball bats, because normal carrots don’t stand up to the vigorous production process.
5VrXp TIL that the original version of the novel “The Neverending Story” was printed in two colors: Red ink for events in the real world, green for events in Fantasia. One reviewer called it “a good buy… unless you suffer from red/green colour blindness.”