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TIL gasoline is currently 4 cents a gallon in Venezuela

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epjdJ TIL while Lion King(1994) earned $2 billion in box office and home media, it earned $3 billion and $8 billion in merchandising and stage adatation respectively.
j6yPQ TIL Finches and canaries were used in the coal mine industry to detect carbon monoxide. This practice ceased as of 1986
l9pa TIL the average worker in the US today would only have to work 11 hours per week to be as productive as his fellow worker in 1950.
OoZMg TIL that in Vietnam they call the Vietnam war, “The American War”
rRlXe TIL That for 200 years tomatoes were considered poisonous in Europe. In reality, their acidity was dissolving poisonous metals like lead from plates.