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TIL that airliners use 1 gallon of gas each second!

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grDkL TIL Pierce Brosnan was offered James Bond in 1986 after NBC cancelled Remington Steele. However, the publicity of the offer improved Remington Steele's ratings and it was renewed, contractually requiring Brosnan to return to the show and forcing producers to have to look elsewhere for a James Bond.
XEb9Q TIL that we evolved to like the smell of our own farts because it is important to help us maintain proper hygiene but dislike others smell because it is dangerous for us.
0wR11 TIL that in the US, parking spaces take up about 25,000 square miles of land nationwide, an area roughly the size of the state of West Virginia
4ELo TIL Thomas Jane reprised his role as The Punisher in a fan-film, alongside Ron Perlman.
GYArG TIL there was a cult that formed around the same time as Christianity which worshipped the emperor Hadrian's young gay lover Antinous, believing the boy was resurrected as Osiris after he'd drowned in the Nile.