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TIL an average of 250 oil pipeline accidents happen each year, at a cost of over $6.3 billion.

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Dxjg TIL a Florida millionaire was being sued for a wrongful death resulting from DUI, so he adopted his 42 year-old girlfried because the court had ruled that the trust set up for his children could not be considered as part of his financial worth.
D18yg TIL that the words "ton" and "tonne" refer to different units of weight. A British ton, or "gross ton" is 2,240 pounds or 1,016.047 kg. A US ton, or "net ton" is equal to 2,000 pounds or 907.1847 kg. A tonne, or "metric ton" is equal to 1,000 kg.
0xDp TIL that “⸮” has been proposed as a punctuation mark to denote irony since the 1580s.
wMkP TIL that the word “Tycoon” is a corruption of the Japanese word 大君 ‎(taikun, “great prince”). Which was the tile for the Shogun of Japan.
8ekRb TIL gummy worms were invented in 1981 by Trolli, the German candy company.