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TIL: United States produces more crude oil than any country, ever

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dDy6r TIL that the only woman to ever appear on an US Dollar banknote has been Martha Washington. She appeared on the 1886 and 1891 series of one-dollar silver certificates. Her portrait was used again next to her husband, George, on the back of the 1896 one-dollar note
Wk8jL TIL that "double-acting" baking powder generates carbon dioxide to raise baking products at both room temperature and then, using different compounds, at oven temperature. This double-raising effect increases the reliability of the baking process.
e0RjD TIL that in the months after the 2011 quake in northeastern Japan, taxi drivers reported picking up "ghost passengers" in the coastal town of Ishinomaki where nearly 6,000 people died in the tsunami.
X00aX TIL that Andres Serrano's Immersion (Piss Christ) was destroyed by vandals in 2011 in Avignon, France
7Qwr TIL that rich people in China hire body doubles to serve their prison sentence