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TIL: US retail sales of gasoline have more than halved in the last decade (2002-2012)

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pE4b TIL plants can actually sprout within a human body…
jNx6p TIL that King Herod of Judea (73/74 BCE – 4 BCE) desired a certain maiden and she killed herself to avoid marrying him. He later went on to preserve her body in honey for 7 years amid rumours of necrophilia.
epbWn TIL: "Officer Obie" from the song "Alice's Restaurant" was a real person, and modeled for several Norman Rockwell paintings.
nDjr TIL in the famous bath salt cannibalism case, no evidence of bath salts was ever found
LkMwZ TIL that the brain doesn't firmly distinguish between physical pain and intense emotional pain. So the same brain networks that are activated when you're burned by hot coffee also light up when you think about an ex who dumped you.