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TIL - Dubai is littered with abandoned supercars due to Sharia law. Late payments are punishable by law.

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Z8LlG TIL that JRR Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
R5l4w TIL That avant-garde British pop band "Art of Noise" takes it's name from a 1913 Futurist manifesto, called "The Art of Noise" - Which argues that the modern human ear has grown accustom to industrial noise, and now will seek more exciting sounds in music to combat this.
4l5J TIL Danielle Lierow is a girl who was severely neglected since birth, left in a dark room as a toddler, and never learned how to talk, eat, or hold a doll. She was adopted into a loving home in 2007 and in 2014 was 15 years old in high school and able to say “I love you” to her adoptive father.
JY8d8 TIL It is only called an acronym when you pronounce the abbreviation as a real word (ex. NASA), otherwise it's known as an initialism (ex. FBI)
yVbMv TIL Medicine caps have protective caps due to a person in Chicago lacing Tylenol containers with Cyanide. The killer was never found.