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TIL Russia Outproduces Saudi Arabia in Oil Production by 1,000,000 barrels per day.

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PYoAE TIL: In a room at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond all sound from the outside world is locked out. It's called an "anechoic" chamber, because it creates no echo at all. The background noise is so low that it approaches the lowest threshold theorized by mathematicians - next step is vacuum.
g8KD TIL that some dogs that fail seeing-eye school go to work as bomb-sniffers for the ATF
KO4B TIL that in 1913 a Slovakian coal miner invented a parachute skirt. He demonstrated it by jumping off a building in Washington within eye shot of the U.S. Patent Office.
a8MAA TIL about English as She Is Spoke. Intended as a Portuguese-English translation guide, the author actually had no grasp of English. For help he used a Portuguese-French guide and then a French-English one. The resulting book is a hilarious trainwreck
yVAOa TIL how criminals launder money