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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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eKvE TIL that when Mr. T was serving in the Army, his platoon sergeant punished him by ordering him to chop down trees. However, he did not specify how many trees, so Mr. T single-handedly chopped down over seventy trees in about 4 hours, until a shocked major superseded the sergeant’s orders.
VMkjZ This Dreamliner weighs 130,000 kg—but actually, even a human could pull a full-sized aircraft.
AZBw TIL that Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” is a current bestseller in India, and many Indians believe him to be a more respectable role-model than Gandhi.
QJxee TIL of Myrtle Corbin, a woman born with two pairs of legs and two sets of internal and external reproductive anatomies, who gave birth to five children in her lifetime and had no major health issues, living to the age of 59
wY0o TIL, in Canada, there is a higher age of consent for anal sex in unmarried couples: 18 instead of 16.