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TIL one gallon (about 4 liters) of gasoline contains about 31,000,000 calories

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8aDYX TIL that 3% of all movies in the 1960s featureed quicksand
7j4P TIL of Deep Thunder, a weather prediction system created by IBM and processed by Watson. Deep Thunder can accurately predict weather down to a .2 mile (one city block) radius using data it collects from smartphone barometers.
VMBrZ TIL that during WW1, French commander Joseph Joffre employed professional car racer Georges Boillot to drive him around the conflict zone at blazing speeds.
BraWy TIL New York, London, and Paris have fake buildings on residential streets that hide subway vents and other infrastructure. These are essentially facades with no building behind them.
kEV1 TIL - The size that acorns grow to is partly dictated by how large the mouths of birds and squirrels are - if the acorns grow too large the animals can’t disperse them away from the tree which is critical for germination an seedling growth