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TIL Camels originate from North America.

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epxm4 TIL that the song Do Re Mi from The Sound of Music is in the key of B flat major, not C major, and that Do doesn’t necessarily mean C.
EgnRo TIL that Anthony Gignac, a con artist who managed to defraud funds of $8.1 million over several years by posing a member of the Saudi royalty, was only caught after the supposed Muslim prince ordered pork at a restaurant.
NkEN TIL that you can have seizures all your life and never know it. They are Temporal Lobe seizures and are referred to auras and include a sense of deja vu or unexplained sense if dread.
ElyW TIL when George R.R. Martin was young, he wrote stories about a mythical kingdom populated by his pet turtles. The turtles died frequently in their toy castle, so he finally decided they were killing each other off in “sinister plots”.
AgE4 TIL that the word “Sanction” is an antonym of itself.