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TIL Google hired a Camel to map a desert for Google StreetView

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0o0p TIL the screenplay for Pirates of the Caribbean was finished in the 1990s. Steven Spielberg stumbled upon it and campaigned to direct the film with Robin Williams starring as Jack Sparrow
eNKD TIL in 2006, a Walmart in Canada, following a bomb threat, forced it’s employees to help police search the store for the bomb.
NXemQ TIL that John Wilkes Booth attended the hanging of abolitionist leader John Brown. Booth stood near the scaffold and afterwards expressed great satisfaction with Brown's fate, although he admired the condemned man's bravery in facing death stoically.
VXkD TIL Masturbation reduces risk of testicles cancer.
aexb TIL that the chief of Police in St. Paul let mobsters like Machine Gun Kelly, John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson live in the city as long as they didn’t commit any crimes there. They were also protected from extradition and tipped off of any federal raids.