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TIL giant camels roamed Canada’s High Arctic about 3.5 million years ago

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4XKVw TIL that MORE strength and muscle mass makes you live longer and healthier, especially strength. Athletes live on average 4 to 8 years longer than the general population.
grKVW TIL Julius Caesar wasn't born via Caesarean section. In fact, the procedure was named well before he existed. Despite this, in some languages, the term directly translates the "caesar" part. For example, in German it's "Kaiserschnitt" (emperor cut).
xLEo TIL that Disney rejected Back to the Future because the mother/son storyline was “not appropriate”
nW91W TIL that Sonny Bono is the only member of Congress in American History to have scored a Number One Hit on the Billboard Hot 100, doing so with he and his ex-wife Chers 1965 Hit "I Got You Babe".
xnRD TIL Suzanne Somers was fired from Three’s Company when she asked to be paid equally to costar John Ritter.