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TIL "yt ppl" refers to “white people”

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b6lDE TIL some weather balloon instrument packages contain prepaid mail bags, so if you find them you can post them back to the National Weather Service!
78aWM TIL that Cushing, OK - pop. 8,427 - is the largest oil-storage tank farm in the world. It has about 350 tanks, operated by multiple companies, with a total of 73 million barrels of working capacity, and controls oil prices globally.
p85ZQ TIL the difference between a boat and a ship. When a boat turns, it tilts in the direction it turns, while a ship tilts in the outward direction.
bmkE TIL a French mountaineer found a 47-year-old treasure at Mont Blanc worth $341,300 and returned it because he “didn’t want to keep something that belonged to someone who’d died.”
m1J7P TIL that the controversy over the infamous 1927 Long Count Fight between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey between partially stemmed from the fact that a 1912 law had banned the transportation of boxing movies across state lines, meaning few people could see the footage of it.