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TIL Actor Steven Seagal was Sued for Driving a Tank into a House, Killing a Puppy during a Police Raid

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J1Pa4 TIL that Nepal has a festival devoted entirely to celebrating dogs!
1AyW TIL coffee comes from an edible fruit. The coffee cherry is sweet and tastes like watermelon, rosewater, and hibiscus all at once.
jNr0M TIL The idea that eating carrots helps you see in the dark was a lie invented by the British Airforce in WW2, in order to explain how British air raids were so successful in the dark without tipping the Germans off on the existence of radar.
8w8Z TIL sharks have been around for longer than trees