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TIL United States Chamber of Commerce is not a government agency but a conservative lobbyist group.

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Ookb4 TIL: The US Navy uses a fuel for some torpedoes called Otto Fuel II. It is highly toxic and on the EPA's National Priorities List. If exposed you can have chest pain and tachycardia years later.
P9YV TIL Jim Carey and Jeff Daniels have agreed to reprise their roles as Harry and Lloyd in Dumb and Dumber for a sequel set to be released in 2014
rN7jW TIL that the fiction planet of Tatooine in Star Wars was named after the city of Tataouine in Tunisia, where the Tatooine scenes were filmed.
6E6W7 TIL about .kkrieger, a first-person shooter from 2004 which makes extensive use of procedural generation techniques and therefore takes up only 96 kilobytes of disk space
Jabj TIL the FBI was right to watch Earnest Hemingway. He was a failed KGB spy.