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

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Brgk TIL in 2008, more than 200 marijuana plants were found growing inside Miami’s Mall of the Americas.
7r6RX TIL that the US uses customary units of measurement that, prior to 1959, were slightly bigger than the imperial system units. The Mendenhall Order established a set conversion rate between the US and metric systems, causing discrepancies with the imperial system over time.
WQb9 TIL When the allies liberated Nazi concentration camps gays were forced to carry out their prison sentences
mn5v TIL: There are cycles of violence within the United States every 50 years (give or take 5), we’re due for one in the next 6 years
XE7w8 TIL there is a hotel called the Greenbrier in West Virginia. A bunker was built under the hotel in the late 50s to house Congress in the event of a nuclear war. It was outted by the Washington Post and subsequently closed. It's now open for tours.