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Today I learned camels originated in North America, but went extinct here along with mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers, and horses, coinciding with the migration of humans from Asia.

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v1mLj TIL about female hyenas
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LQDdZ TIL that Cassowary meat is so tough that people were told to cook it with a stone in the pot. "When the stone is ready to eat, so is the Cassowary."
NXnb6 TIL about Gaius Appuleius Diocles, a Roman charioteer. He is considered the highest-paid athlete of all time. It has been calculated that Diocles earned 35,863,120 sesterces during his career, comparable to today's 15 billion USD
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