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TIL there is a guy who walks around the city of Melbourne with a giant carrot. He is called Carrot Man.

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EgQ4W TiL Charles Dickens was a passenger on a train crash. He tended the victims, some of whom died while he was with them. The experience affected him greatly; he lost his voice for two weeks and tried avoiding train travel whenever possible. He later died five years to the day after the accident.
wmbE TIL Ryan built the car he used in Drive. The director said, “Ryan wanted to build his own car. So the car, the Malibu, the old gray car he drives around, he built himself. He took it apart and put it back together.”
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ZAJD TIL that the Beijing subways are allowing travelers to use plastic bottles as form of payment to encourage recycling.