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d8VyE TIL, the U.S once had a Camel Corps for the military and over 1000 were imported. After the Civil War the experimented ended and as result small feral herds existed with the last sighting in 1891
b6nZa TIL that the popular German television series "Derrick" is no longer rerun because it was discovered that the show's star Horst Tappert was a former SS soldier.
xQoB TIL it is common for spiders to eat their own web daily to reuse the silk proteins.
p8w4G TIL pieces of Skylab were scattered around a part of Western Australia after its reentry into Earth. As a joke, the local government then fined NASA $400 for littering. It went unpaid for 30 years until a Californian DJ raised funds to pay the fine.
E79P TIL During the 1960 campaign, John F. Kennedy’s opponents said he had Addison’s disease. His doctors released a cleverly worded statement saying that he did not have Addison’s disease caused by tuberculosis, and the matter was dropped. He had Addison’s disease caused by a rare autoimmune disease.