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TIL that airliners use 1 gallon of gas each second!

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e00Bg TIL the metropolitan population of Tokyo is 38 million, almost the same as the entire state of California, and 50% more than the whole state of Texas.
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0wMZv TIL: In 2004 the joint leader of "The Monster Raving Looney Party" in the UK was a cat named Catmando
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