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TIL that Cushing, OK – pop. 8,427 – is the largest oil-storage tank farm in the world. It has about 350 tanks, operated by multiple companies, with a total of 73 million barrels of working capacity, and controls oil prices globally.

by whatilearned September 17, 2022, 1:17 am

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TIL: The United States *Army* is the second largest Air Force in the world, by number of aircraft.

by whatilearned September 16, 2022, 7:34 pm

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TIL there’s a 7-story rock in a desert near Joshua Tree in California that 1) is maybe the largest freestanding boulder in the world, 2) once had a 24ft by 36ft apartment dug underneath it, and 3) hosted 20 years of Flying Saucer Conventions starting in the 1950s

by whatilearned September 13, 2022, 11:53 pm

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TIL Rhode Island is home to the world’s largest artificial bug

by whatilearned September 13, 2022, 9:31 pm

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TIL the Bollywood market is the largest film market in the world in both films released and tickets sold, with more than four billion tickets sold each year. It’s far behind Hollywood in terms of financial income, however, because of a wide disparity in ticket prices and the cost of recorded movies.

by whatilearned September 11, 2022, 4:18 pm

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TIL Australia has slightly more land mass than the contiguous United States. Five of the six mainland states are each bigger than Texas. Just Victoria, containing the 2nd largest city Melbourne, is smaller.

by whatilearned September 10, 2022, 7:05 pm

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TIL George Washington was the nation’s largest whiskey producer. He made 11,000 gallons in 1799

by whatilearned September 10, 2022, 5:26 pm

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TIL if AirPods was it’s own company, it would be the 32nd largest company in the US

by whatilearned September 9, 2022, 4:49 pm

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TIL that the 4th largest polished diamond in the world is in the King’s Crown and a previous crown was destroyed by Oliver Cromwell

by whatilearned September 9, 2022, 12:36 pm

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TIL the third largest lake in Italy, Lake Fucino (as big as Liechtenstein), was drained completely and its bed converted into one of the most fertile agricultural plains in the country

by whatilearned September 8, 2022, 9:29 am

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TIL that while Canada is the 2nd largest country on earth, over 90% of Canada’s population resides within 150 miles of the US border.

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 9:10 pm

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TIL: Antarctica is the largest desert in the world. A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 8:43 pm

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