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TIL the country with highest number of camels is Australia
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TIL More than 60 percent of people in the US who die from guns die by suicide
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TIL that in 1945 Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.
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TIL Edward Youde was the only Governor of Hong Kong to die in office. He helped negotiate the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which made it clear that the British would leave Hong Kong in 1997 after 156 years of colonial rule
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TIL that frozen embryos show no significant effect of storage time on post-thaw survival for IVF, and that pregnancies have been reported from embryos stored for 27 years.
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TIL in 1896, Bill Crush orchestrated the spectacle of smashing two trains into each other completely on purpose. Although no one was within 200 yards of the impact, the explosion from the steam engines killed two spectators and injured more. The event was considered a big PR and financial success.