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TIL Daylight Savings Time was originally started to conserve energy, but has since become obsolete.

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k0ve TIL that in 2002 all Arab states agreed to recognize Israel if Israel withdraws from all occupied territories since 1967 and recognize a Palestinian state, which is also known as the two state solution
8apXV TIL The U.S was going to detonate 3 nuclear warheads to to drill for oil, which could have detonated 300 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. It was luckily stopped by the community of Sublette County due to the high risks to the wellbeing of the community and the environment.
Wk5Nd TIL that by 2011, 10 tons of human excrement had been excavated from a cesspit beneath Herculaneum, one of the towns that was destroyed Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Due to how much time had passed since the eruption, the excrement had no unpleasant odor when it was discovered
jR5j TIL That the USA is the number one oil producing country in the world.
oJVY TIL during World War II, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with Bubonic Plague