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TIL Jaguar uses bull leather instead of cow leather because it shows no stretch marks from pregnancy.

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J1Yll TIL that before 1986 professional athletes were not allow to compete at the Olympic Games.
KOANJ TIL the Polish Beer-Lovers' Party, a satirical political party, won 16 seats in Poland's lower house in the 1991 election. The party soon split into Large Beer and Small Beer factions, despite their founder's claims that "beer is neither light nor dark, it is tasty". The party eventually dissolved.
oBYkK TIL that rapper Lil Wayne attempted suicide at the age of 12 by shooting himself in the chest and barely missing his heart
QJ1RM TIL that Los Angeles County has a bigger population (10.04 million) than 40 US states. (9.986 million or less)
G5kQ TIL that Navy Seals who carried out the Bin Laden kill mission, forgot to bring a tape measure and had to measure Laden’s height by making a six feet tall Seal lie down next to Laden’s corpse.