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TIL that total US oil consumption is back to 1997 levels.

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v1Pxx TIL: Chinese philanthropist, Run Run Shaw (1907-2014) gave $1+/- billion to fund education, aiding over 6000 construction projects. Because so many buildings (5000+) bear his name, Yifu, it is often confused as a generic name.
0dd9L TIL of the high % of NASA astronauts that were Boy Scouts. Of the 312 selected as astronauts, at least 207 have been active in scouting. Of the 24 to travel to the moon, 20 were scouts, including 11 of the 12 moonwalkers, and all three members of the crew of Apollo 13.
Wkbj4 TIL that, In 2018 a federal court judge from Michigan struck down ban on Islamic Female Genital mutilation in USA and dropped charges on accused who mutilated at least nine underage girls. Claiming "Congress did not have the right to criminalize the practice of Female Genital Mutilation"
OoNP6 TIL Joe Rogan and Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance are Cousins
YlVr TIL A photo of a man stealing a wallet in a store was on the bottom of The Lewiston Tribune on December 14, 2007. Above it was an unrelated photo of a man painting a business. Readers noticed both men were wearing the same clothes. They were identified to be the same person leading to his arrest.