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TIL Saddam Hussein commissioned a calligrapher to write a copy of the Quran using his blood as ink. The 605 page book contains roughly 27 liters of his blood and is kept in a mosque in Iraq behind 3 vault doors.

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x6L47 TIL Hawaii has an endemic Hawk | The Hawaiian hawk or ʻio (Buteo solitarius) is a raptor in the genus Buteo endemic to Hawaii, Currently restricted to the Big Island. The ʻio is one of two extant birds of prey that are native to Hawaii, the other being the pueo
NXvQQ TIL No Kill Shelters aren’t actually no kill. They save 90% of their animals to be considered no kill.
DBaY TIL That some airlines are considered so dangerous, they are banned from flying into the EU. The majority of them are from Central Africa
gxQ7 TIL The disposable syringe was invented by New Zealander Colin Murdoch in 1956. The Department of Health weren’t interested, saying the design was “too futuristic” and that patients wouldn’t want to be injected with anything contained in plastic.
M7kMW TIL about the Grande Seca (The Great Drought), the most devastating drought ever recorded in Brazil. It caused the deaths of 400,000-500,000 people. Of the 800,000 people living in the affected Northeastern region, 120,000 migrated to the Amazon while 68,000 migrated to other regions of the country.