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TIL camels originated from the Americas and were larger than what they are now.

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XwvE TIL that suicide surpassed combat as the leading cause of military deaths in 2012 and has remained as the top killer ever since.
OmaL TIL Guatemala has more Nobel Prize winners than it does Olympic medalists.
oRmbR TIL According to North Korean state media, Kim Jong II was born under a double rainbow on a sacred mountain. And before his death, the skies glowed red and Mount Paektu and the impenetrable sheet of ice at the heart of the volcano cracked.
Brb0x TIL, there’s a bunch of extremely useful punctuation marks that are barely ever used, such as the “Question Comma”.
7rxV7 TIL that there was a Soviet spy in Congress from 1923 to 1945. Congressman Samuel Dickstein of New York was a paid agent of the NKVD, the precursor to the KGB. While in Congress, Dickstein helped to establish an "un-American activities" committee, which he used to attack suspected communists.