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TIL that the stylized Dubai logo is the Arabic text for Dubai superimposed atop the English text

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d8XmB TIL the first undisputed dog remains buried with a human are dated 14,700 years ago. Disputed remains go as far back as 36,000 years ago
Br04L TIL Niagara Falls was drained in 1969.
l75Z1 TIL that Bruce Willis has a music album with a song that made it to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, “Respect Yourself”.
oBrRE TIL about Jaron Lanier, who at 13 convinced a university to allow him to enroll (where he took graduate-level courses) and at 16 built a canoe he sailed from Florida to Venezuela. He is considered a founding father of the field of virtual reality.
MoPA TIL in 1988, Cosmopolitan released an article saying that women should not worry about contracting HIV from infected men and that “most heterosexuals are not at risk”, claiming it was impossible to transmit HIV in the missionary position.