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TIL Xenon is such an expensive gas that when it's used for anaesthesia, recycling systems are used to recycle the used xenon for future use.

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b9Ebp TIL of "Enoteca Maria" a Staten Island restaurant that only employs grandmothers to cook traditional food from their homelands
gd4A TIL that Eminem has more Oscars than Leonardo Decaprio, Johnny Depp, Will Smith, George Lucas, and Bill Murray combined.
QaEa TIL there are about 150 buffalo on Catalina Island. They were imported to the island to film a spaghetti western in 1924 and were never removed.
xVMxk TIL that as compensation for claiming New Amsterdam (New York) from the Dutch in 1667, the English relinquished claims to the disputed South American territory of Suriname. Today, Suriname is the only independent country in the Americas where most people speak Dutch.