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TIL about the US Camel Corps, which imported camels for use by the Army and were taken over by the Confederacy. Feral camels were sighted in Texas well into the 1900s

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J1pZ1 TIL 80% of container ships use electric motors - they just use diesel generators to produce energy for the electric motor
n8pP TIL Tetris was originally created as a simple game to test the capabilities of new Soviet hardware. This is the original version.
VpDZ TIL that big pharmaceutical companies have been known to sue smaller ones to force the smaller companies to accept cash in exchange for not producing generic drugs
8aeBZ Despite its size (10 times as wide as Earth), Saturn is the only planet in the solar system that's less dense than water. If the planet were placed on an enormous ocean, it would be able to float.
OooEX TIL that one of the symptoms of a Brazilian Wandering spider's bite is an incredibly painful erection that lasts for hours