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TIL the Ministry of Interior in Qatar found video on social media of a car doing donuts in traffic. The car was impounded then then fed into a car crusher machine with a claw excavator.

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9PrB TIL that Mattel sued the band Aqua because of the double entendres in the song ‘Barbie Girl’. The judge awarded in favour of Aqua, saying “The parties are advised to chill”
6EWP8 TIL Zebra stripes are actually white, not black. It was thought previously that zebras were white animals with black stripes since some zebras have white underbellies. Embryological evidence, however, shows that the animal's background color is black and the white stripes and bellies are additions.
ywY8 TIL That a cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.
Lk5n9 TIL in 2001-2002, Afghan children mistook unexploded US cluster bombs for food packages because of their similar shape and yellow packaging. Several children were maimed and even killed as a result.
epebJ TIL That women could not have their own credit cards regardless of marital status until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act passed in 1974. Before then, a man would have to co-sign for a woman, even if she made more money, so credit cards were only available to men for the first 16 years they existed.