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TIL gasoline is currently 4 cents a gallon in Venezuela

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mxMPo TIL that McDonald's chicken nuggets come in 4 shapes: Bowtie, boot, ball, and bell
jNbaR TIL that there have been multiple people adrift at sea who have lived over a year with no supplies other than what the ocean had to offer. Through their own ingenuity and perseverance they survived.
4kbKR TIL that the name Buffy from the show Buffy The Vampire Slayer was the password for the Facebook phone in 2011
nekO9 TIL Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, was also a famous mathematician- a method for solving for the determinants of square matrices is named for him.
P1ble TIL about Thomas Aikenhead, the person in the United Kingdom to be executed for blasphemy. Only 20 at the time for his death, his execution in 1697 was intended to be used by the Lord Advocate, Sir James Stewart as a warning to those who would hold opinions contrary to traditional Christian beliefs.