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TIL Alfa Romeo's logo contains a snake eating a human
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TIL: Humans and bananas share about 40 to 60 percent of the same DNA
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TIL Henry David Thoreau once accidentally burned down 300 acres of Walden Woods, and was known around town as “wood burner.”
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TIL Saddam Hussein once wrote a medieval romance novel called Zabibah and the King. It was a thinly disguised allegory which represented the events of the first Gulf War in 1991. It was a bestseller in Iraq and is said to have inspired the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy “The Dictator”
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TIL In the early 1930’s, Warner Bros. began producing animated shorts specifically for the purpose of promoting music owned by the company. They were called “Looney Tunes.”
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TIL of Pēteris Lapainis. A soldier who served in Russian imperial army, Soviet armed forces, Latvian army and German military. He fought in both world wars and received multiple high-ranking awards from each army he served. After second world war he spent 20 years in Soviet captivity.