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TIL In 2008 there was a Measles outbreak in San Diego, California. Its start was attributed an to unvaccinated child.

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PYVnw TIL camels once existed in Canada's far north. The Yukon giant camel was an 3.5 million-year-old ancestor of the living domestic camel found today in the deserts of Asia and Africa.
0ypM TIL: in 2008 Mississippi, a lady attempted to sell her granddaughter for $2,000 and a car. Police could not charge her or her daughter, the child’s mother, with selling the child because in Mississippi, the practice is legal.
nYV9 TIL that a father was denied access to see his premature twins when Beyonce and Jay-Z had their daughter at the same time.
dZy9 TIL there are hundreds of 1000-year-old underground tunnel systems in Bavaria, and nobody really knows who built them or what they’re for.
pYMWA TIL that locusts are born with their first meal already in their guts, to adapt in dry conditions