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TIL the US has 727M barrels of oil hidden in underground salt caverns

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78Rdp TIL there are literal mountains of 'trashed', rentable bikes in china - with a lot of them looking like new
b1NN TIL that the guy who got Pluto not to be a planet anymore wrote a book called “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”. He is also behind the discovery of the new Ninth planet.
e0L6g TIL That the digits of interstate highways in the USA have meaning. For example, even-numbered highways like I10 and I90 run east-west, while odd-numbered highways like I5 and I95 run north-south.
oBPvR TIL that in post-Soviet Russia, feral dogs have learned to commute on the subway to broaden their food scavenging range - including getting to know which stops they are looking for based on the announcements over the PA.
yVGle TIL Abraham Lincoln had already seen the play “Our American Cousin” and did not like it. He went at the insistence of his wife stating, "All right, Mary, I'll go; but if I don't go down in history as the martyr President, I miss my guess."