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TIL That the USA is the number one oil producing country in the world.

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wL9eP TIL: In 1991, a plane crashed after an inspector from afternoon shift started repair by unscrewing 30 screws, but failed to pass the information when changing shifts. The plane then fell from 3 km height, killing everyone on board.
Wkpao TIL that the US has a law permitting the invasion of the (Hague) Netherlands if an American is dragged before the International Criminal Court.
ePb6 TIL that Israeli secret service, the Mossad, hatched a plan in the 1950s to bomb areas in Egypt where Americans gathered, and make these attacks appear to be the work of Muslim extremists. The plot was discovered and it’s known as ‘The Lavon Affair’.
e078D TIL a 17 year old online trading scam artist was killed via a bomb that one of the people he scammed sent him in the mail in retaliation
O7le TIL that Despot, Tyrant, Dictator, and Autocrat were originally respectable titles and did not have the negative connotations we do today