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TIL that Honda sold a rebadged version of the 90s era Land Rover Discovery in Japan

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KYlpw TIL that the guillotine has been used in North America. In 1889, someone was executed with it in the French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. It had to be shipped in.
16RyV TIL about Irving Thalberg, known as the Boy Wonder his films were the first to carve out an international market and set the path for making Hollywood the center of the largest movie industry in the world. He achieved all this before his death at 37.
JvyV TIL that the Finnish language has a unit of measurement based on a reindeers urinary habits. Poronkusema
b9VJa TIL that, prior to WWII, dueling scars were a common sign of honor and stature, especially due to academic fencing. Their owners were considered "good husband material."
dDRAB TIL that there are three main types of galaxy - elliptical, spiral and irregular - but that there is a huge range of variation within these three categories.