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TIL That the National Animal of Scotland is the Unicorn

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a8b TIL In the late 90s, Saddam Hussein commissioned a Quran to be written in his own blood. Now, Muslim leaders aren’t sure what to do with it–To write the Quran in blood was a sin, but to destroy it would also be a sin.
XEVQ8 TIL about Donald Watts, a Florida resident police received calls about and found rolling naked in a muddy ditch. After using 2 stun guns with no effect they called for backup among which was a K9 unit who was ordered to engage Watts but Watts managed to grab the dog by the head and bit him first.
lb6G TIL the oft quoted statement that there are more people alive now than have ever died is complete fiction. Current estimates put the number of people that have ever died to be ~107 billion
BgV0k TIL director Michel Gondry found Jim Carrey's emotional state after a breakup "so beautiful, so broken" that he asked him to stay that way for one year to fit his character in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6ENJm TIL that an officer was transferred off the Titanic shortly before she sailed. He packed his quarters quickly and accidentally left the ship with a key in his pocket - the key to the crow's nest cabinet where they kept the lookout's binoculars.