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TIL That in the 19th Century the US Army experimented in using camels instead of horses to traverse the American South West

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BMZe TIL A Party conference in Soviet Moscow ended with a tribute to Stalin. Nobody wanted to be the first to stop clapping. After 11 minutes of clapping a factory director stopped first and everybody else followed. That night he was sent to a gulag for 10 years.
j6gZR TIL that the Cairo spiny mouse has spinelike bristles rather than spines down its back. More importantly, it is the first and so far only known rodent that menstruates. Its cycle is nine days long.
nWVj9 TIL Montecristo cigars are named after the classic novel because cigar rollers at the time were read to for entertainment whilst working and ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ was a favourite among the staff.
16xOX TIL about the Gish Gallop, in which one debater spews an overwhelming number of arguments, without regard to their veracity, so that their opponent is unable to answer coherently or refute the statements.
wEY6 TIL at age 16 Sybil Ludington rode twice the distance as Paul Revere to announce the British were coming.