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TIL A renowned Pakistani fabric, Ajrak makes use of camel and cow dung in it's manufacturing.

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dDAvj TIL of Old Whitey, a saponified corpse floating about the engine room of the SS Kamloops sunk off Isle Royale, Lake Superior, in 1927. Unidentified to today, he follows divers around as they explore her wreck. Superior it's said never gives up her dead.
R71Aj TIL that the A-10 Warthog has a dedicated windshield washer fluid reservoir specifically for clearing the canopy of soot and carbon after the cannon is fired. It also has fins under the air frame to redirect gun gasses from being sucked into the engines and starving them of oxygen.
9YGDD TIL The son of Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi used his connections to sign for a top-level Italian soccer team. He only ever played ten minutes, and one sportswriter said, "Even at twice his current speed, he would still be twice as slow as slow itself"
mxLRx TIL George Stinney, the youngest American who was sentenced and electrocuted to death, always carried a bible in his hands during his trial. The same bible was later used as a booster for the electrocution chair as he was too small for it.
781VL TIL about the town of Catatumbo where lightning strikes ~1.2 million times per year