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TIL that Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world, surpassing Saudi Arabia

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Vgap TIL: A tiger’s roar has a frequency that is silent to human ears but can paralyze its prey because it is so low and loud.
LQB69 TIL the first Actor of Asian Descent to win an Academy Award was an amateur actor, winning for his first movie. He also survived three terms in Khmer rouge's Concentration camps during Pol Pot's Regime.
rNRjW TIL that when "Jaws" was filmed, Steven Spielberg initially wanted to build a giant mechanical shark for realism, but its constant malfunctioning proved to be a budgeting nightmare, so he came up with the cheaper solution of shooting from the shark's POV in the waters instead.
6EKo8 TIL for 26 years, German feminists Ottilie Assing and African-American Abolitionist Frederick Douglass were believed to be having an affair. I’m August 1884, after learning Douglass remarried to Helen Pitts, Assing killed herself by swallowing cyanide in a public park in Paris.
M7x98 TIL that 11/19/1999 was the the last date before 1/1/3111 when all the digits in the date were odd.