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TIL Land Rover Dubai has an edible owner's manual for customers if they get lost in the Arabian Desert.

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J0kl TIL Chris Brown didn’t just punch Rihanna - he repeatedly beat her, causing her to bleed from her mouth, shoved her against a car window, bit her hand and choked her within an inch of her life.
M7Yo0 TIL that Monrovia, the capital of Liberia in West Africa, is the second national capital to be named after a US president (James Monroe), apart from Washington DC. It also is the only national capital named after a leader of a different country.
v1814 Today I learned that club moss spores are so hydrophobic, if you pour them onto water, then stick your hand in the glass, it'll come out dry. Also, that it's super flammable. I heard it on a podcast but had to see it myself, and found this:
QNN8E TIL Dr Seuss studied English at the University of Oxford, with a plan to eventually become a professor there but dropped out when he realized drawing was his only passion. He moved back to the US to become a cartoonist
gaK4 TIL the ‘tattoo gun’ that artists commonly use today was originally a pen that could write through multiple pieces of paper invented by Thomas Edison in 1876. It was modified in 1891 for use with tattooing.