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TIL there’s a huge cave dug by elephants: Kitum Cave

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l7Ba1 TIL: 1897, the Buffalo Soldiers 25th Infantry Regiment Bicycle Corps embarked on a 1,900-mile journey from Montana to Missouri.
j6GPE TIL humans cannot actually feel wetness; we only perceive it through temperature and pressure.
8agK4 TIL in 2012 numerous government officials in Mali were detained by a military Junta after a Coup. There has been no update on the condition of these prisoners since.
GYO74 TIL about the world's oldest cured ham. It was overlooked on its hook at Gwaltney Foods in 1902 and hung from a rafter for twenty years. The company owner then declared it his pet ham, put a collar on it, and took it to exhibitions. It's now in a museum in Isle of Wight County, VA. It has a Twitter.