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W7Xl9 TIL There were Camels hanging out with humans in North America 18000 years ago
awBbo TIL A beggar was caught outside a mosque in Kuwait telling worshipers that he badly needed cash and that he had no home. Since it is illegal, he was arrested and police discovered he had over 500,000 Kuwaiti Dinars in his bank account ($1,650,000)
78evM TIL Facebook lost about $700 billion in market capitalization after rebranding as Meta
X0oKE TIL about a cheeky species of New Zealand parrot that required their own special playground be made to keep them from messing with traffic
8axRK TIL Ada Lovelace, along with her early work in programming and designing a turing computer in the 1830s, wrote a theory of "flyology" on powered flight that accurately documented wing-body ratios to achieve it. She was 12 when she published it.