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TIL: That Gas Prices in Venezuela haven’t changed since 1996 at $0.015 per Liter

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9aEQ TIL that NASA has special wristwatches that keep Mars time for employees working with the rovers
OD1 TIL Stalin once said to Winston Churchill, “God is on your side? Is He a Conservative? The Devil’s on my side, he’s a good Communist.”
Y7KYZ TIL about a 1986 arcade game called Chiller in which the player uses a light gun to activate torture devices to maim and kill restrained characters who are incapable of fighting back. It was a commercial failure in the United States because arcade owners refused to purchase it due to the content.
m1GmP TIL There's an active US Coast Guard vessel that originally belonged to Nazi Germany.
MEL8 TIL that in 2002, a high school student ‘inspired by 9/11’ flew a stolen Cessna plane into the Bank of America building. He was the only casualty.