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TIL camels originated in North America

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BeYe TIL a 10 year girl saved hundreds of people during the Thailand Boxing day Tsunami of 2004 after learning about the warning signs of Tsunami 2 weeks prior.
7rP0Z TIL Anita Hill was not the only accuser who was in DC to testify that Clarence Thomas sexually harrassed her. The committee had Angela Wright sit in her lawyer's office in DC for 3 days and never called on her.
kZ7B TIL that during the 70s-80s the crime was so high in New York City that they had volunteer crime-prevention patrollers like Guardian Angels
gr0QL TIL that the heaviest UK coin made for circulation was the 1797 copper tuppence, coming in at a whopping 57 g, weighing as much as ten American quarters and more than 6.5 times heavier than the modern £1 coin. It was worth the same as two pennies.
Ra8j TIL that a Canadian teenager once settled out of court and exchanged his domain name MikeRoweSoft.com for an xbox and games from Microsoft