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TIL Oil is cheaper than water in Venezuela.

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GAYbG TIL: In 1937 the entirety of the Soviet Central Institute of Aerodynamics were arrested meaning that many WW2 planes were designed from prison
X07oj TIL the most widely consumed alcoholic spirit in the world is baijiu, a Chinese liquor. In 2018, 10.8 billion liters were sold — more than whisky, vodka, gin, rum, and tequila combined.
BBpd TIL after 9/11 there was a proposal to “to consider taking Saudi out of Arabia by forcibly seizing control of the oil fields, giving the Hijaz back to the Hashemites, and delegating control of Medina and Mecca to a multinational committee of moderate, non-Wahhabi Muslims”
Z8V7Y TIL of Michael Orchard, a heroic man who broke into his neighbor's burning home to rescue their dog, and who later found out that the house fire was actually NOT real but was just a hallucination from the LSD he was consuming.
Vpk4 TIL that some people with OCD suffer from “sensorimotor obsessions”, the hyperawareness of and focus on bodily processes or sensations such as the act of breathing, blinking, swallowing, or their own heartbeat.