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

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y6JX TIL that among Turkic peoples, there is a sport called “girl chasing”, in which a man and a woman race against each other on horseback. If the man wins, he gets a kiss from the woman. If the woman wins, she gets to beat the man with a whip.
Egdjw TIL that a YouTuber Scientist is training rat neurons to play DOOm
46nw TIL that helicopter escapes from prison are not only real but highly successful
paAQ TIL that the smallest form of the US Dollar is the mill. It is worth 1/1000 of a dollar and used mostly in accounting and oil prices.
pX9A TIL that Nazi scientists tried to reverse-engineer extinct animals through selective breeding, such as the Aurochs and Wisent, as part of their effort to “restore” a primeval Germany.