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TIL that airliners use 1 gallon of gas each second!
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TIL - Each language uses a different quote system. Some will use double angle quotes, others single curved quotes, sometimes in high position, sometimes in low position
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TIL that the Motion Picture Academy refused to nominate Tron for a special-effects award because, according to director Steven Lisberger, “The Academy thought we cheated by using computers”
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TIL that domain names were free until 1995.
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TIL that greasy pizza boxes cannot be recycled; the paper fibers cannot be separated from the oil during the pulping process
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TIL in ancient Sri Lanka, they used winds driven by the yearly monsoons to power some of the first steel-making furnaces to produce what's called Wootz Steel.