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TIL Despite their status as one of the world's largest oil producers, Saudi Arabia is estimated to have less than 100 active oil rigs

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9Yk1Q TIL that most chewing gum made since WWII is based with synthetic petroleum polymers, making it non-biodegradable. Gum is the 2nd most littered object, and is expensive and time consuming to clean up.
yQNbp TIL that the numbers we write today are all upper case. Lower case numbers exist and some include ascenders and descenders
ADoRw TIL in the U.S. (unlike other countries), the placebo effect is so strong that new painkillers have trouble beating it in clinical trials.
R5Vrw TIL about the sparrow who dropped some 23,000 dominos and got killed for that
5ExP TIL that, by law, all bars in Indiana are required to sell soup.