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TIL Oil companies dumped gasoline in rivers before it was popular to use as a fuel.

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x6yJw TIL that water has no nutritional value, it provides no calories, vitamins, or minerals to the body yet is integral for human survival
5Yo7Q TIL the EU abolished Daylight Saving Time, leaving the decisions up to national governments starting in 2021.
VBwvD TIL about Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) who not only popularised the use of lower case Pi to denote the ratio of a circle's circumference to it's diameter, but was also the first to use "i" to denote the square root of -1. The constant "e", the base number in a natural logarithm is the Euler Number
OLd6 TIL that the “service fee” on your phone bill is used by the FCC to provide communication to low income households, rural health clinics, and libraries.
ebnD TIL Charlton Heston narrated for highly classified military and Department of Energy instructional films, particularly relating to nuclear weapons. For six years, he held the nation’s highest security clearance.