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

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Br96y TIL Team Bondi spent 7 years developing the video game "L.A. Noire" and then they got defunct in 2011 shortly after its release, with it being the only game they developed.
694ZZ TIL Marie Curie gave away most of her Nobel Prize money, repaid the scholarship she received as a student as soon as she began working, and refrained from patenting the radiation-isolation process so that the scientific community would not have any trouble with continuing research.
6oGJ TIL Schools that offer students more choice—more elective courses, more ways to complete requirements, a bigger range of potential friends, more freedom to select seats in a classroom—are more likely to be rank-ordered, cliquish, and segregated by race, age, gender and social status.
RVr7 TIL that ‘Scientologists’ collectively won the Pigasus award, a satirical award given to those who advocate pseudoscientific theories, in 2009. They were under the category, 'Refusal to face reality’.
E1O1p TIL of Patent Trolls or Patent Hoarding. Evidently, they acquire and hold useful patents with no intention of developing the technology, and then sue anyone who tries to use a similar idea.