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TIL in 1991 there was an oil spill in the Persian Gulf, more than 10x more oil than the Exxon Valdez that was never cleaned up.

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AMPd TIL When you get a Kidney transplant, they leave your original kidneys in and put the 3rd Kidney in your pelvis.
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K4PQ TIL that during the Panic of 1893, JP Morgan used $60 million in bonds to bail out the United States government.
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