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TIL: If you adjust the price of gasoline in 1918 with 2012 inflation, it would be $3.75/gallon.

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l7DQN TIL: Theres more genetic diversity within Africa than the rest of the world combined
l7jG5 TIL the B-52D Stratofortress is the largest aircraft in history to score an air-to-air kill. Two North Vietnamese MiG-21s were shot down by B-52 tail gunners during Operation Linebacker II in December 1972.
5VXm9 TIL that lower class Germans are stereotyped as giving their children names that sound exotic in German, such as “Kevin.” Prejudice against people with such names is strong enough that the term “Kevinism” was coined to describe it.
EgQgx TIL of Itamar Ben-Avi, the first native speaker of Hebrew in 2,000 years. His father, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, was the lexicographer who revived Hebrew.
DwMJ TIL in March 1945 almost all the wealth stolen by the Nazis was found sealed in a Mine. There was so much gold, it took until 1998 before it was all redistributed.