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TIL Oil is cheaper than water in Venezuela.

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kOjVm TIL that the energy used to produce a single metal straw is equivalent to 90 plastic straws and the carbon emitted is equivalent to about 150. You'd have to use your metal straw 150 times to break even before it actually becomes beneficial to the environment.
O0kL TIL Neil Young’s Silver & Gold album cover was made using a Game Boy Camera and Printer.
AbNg TIL After banning pit bulls in 1991, the rate of dog bites in the UK remained the same.
6ERVY TIL that Tom Cruise's character in "The Last Samurai" was based on a real Frenchman who fought alongside the warriors of a doomed "samurai democracy" in 1869
aXnL TIL many major cities in Europe offer ‘Sanisettes’: private, self-contained, self-cleaning, public bathrooms. After the user has exited, a wash cycle begins and the entire floor and toilet fixture are automatically sprayed, scrubbed and disinfected.