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

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E1M17 TIL that criminals in ancient Athens were most commonly executed via crucifixion ("the board"), but the government allowed the condemned to drink hemlock instead if they personally purchased the poison
kOXRm TIL: In 1930, a group of white Southern church ladies called bullsh-- on lynching, forming the Assoc. of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. They were pretty effective! I learned it from Lillian Smith's 'Killers of the Dream' (1949), but here's an article...
e0ORD TIL that an Australian company developed a 22-karat gold toilet paper with a sale price of $1.3 million per roll.
gD89 TIL of the “Ramsey Effect”, which states that almost every time soccer player Aaron Ramsey scores a goal someone famous dies within a few days. “Victims” of this include Osama Bin Laden, Whitney Houston, David Bowie, and most recently, Nancy Reagan.
awlwA TIL After the Scarecrow gets his diploma in The Wizard of Oz, he recites the Pythagorean theorem incorrectly.