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TIL Google once hired a camel to do street-view photography.

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XEodk TIL For years an elderly Brazilian woman prayed to what she thought was a figurine of St. Anthony until she found out it was actually a figure of Elrond from Lord of the Rings
61j7 TIL the title Ms. was introduced by the Feminist movement in the 1960’s by women who felt that they should be known for something other than who they were married to
QNyNX TIL that Scots is not just a dialect of English, but a proper language with its own spelling. For example, “efter aw I’v duin for ye” is Scots for “after all I’ve done for you.”
womjE TIL: A key factor of animals belonging to the same species is their ability to produce fertile offspring together. So a Great Dane and a Chihuahua could produce fertile offspring, and a horse and a donkey can have a baby together but their offspring will always be infertile.
p6OA TIL that ‘saddam hussein’ is a golf term meaning to go from bunker to bunker