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TIL that china is consuming more pork than ever before

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aD8M TIL that in 1990, Mobil Oil bought a BMW 3 series to test their new synthetic oil on. They drove it a million miles on a treadmill for four years.
yVyMv TIL In some places in history counterfeitting coins was punishable with being boiled alive in oil
JmbQ TIL The Popeyes fast food chain got it’s name from the main character in a crime thriller played by Gene Hackman not from the cartoon character
klbg TIL that from 2003 to 2008 over $40 Billions in cash was flown from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad. Now nobody knows what happened to the money.
4kMP6 TIL that Australia's Constitution allows New Zealand to join as Australia's 7th state at any time