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mxyvP TIL that although camels can drink 200 litres of water, they don't store this water in their humps, but instead in their digestion or circulatory system.
NXMbJ Today I learned Dating to around c. 13,000 BC, a cave painting in the Trois Frères cave in France depicts what some believe is a musical hunting bow used as a single stringed musical instrument and eventually developed into harps, lyres and the modern day electric guitar.
grx1X TIL that "forest" derives from the Latin "foris". It originally referred to "outside woods" - woods beyond the walls of a park or settlement.
mKaP TIL James Cameron was the person who sketched Jack’s nude portrait of Rose for Titanic (1997). The nude scene was also DiCaprio and Winslet’s first scene together.
VMA9B TIL That a man in Florida woke up with a splitting migraine. When he arrives at the hospital, doctors found a bullet in his head. His wife had shot him in the head while he slept.