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TIL that camels originated in North America before migrating to Asia and Africa, with their human-hunted remains having been found in North-American sites as old as 18,000 years.

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QKbe TIL George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is in the public domain in Canada, South Africa, Argentina, Australia, and Oman
XEMDD TIL that 350 years ago, Robert Boyle wrote down a ‘to-do list’ of fantastical things he hoped science would one day acomplish. We’re over half way there.
4Xoeg TIL of Joseph Tartaro who applied for a vanity license plate with the California DMV that said "NULL" as a joke. Because of how computers interpret that word it wreaked havoc in the system and he began to receive dozens of citations in bulk from all over the state.
OMnL TIL that a moose’s antler act as a parabolic reflector and can boost its hearing by 19%!
rRkm0 TIL that "Home Alone" has become a Christmas tradition in Poland, where it's known as "Kevin Sam w Domu" (literally "Kevin Alone in the House"), with Polish TV channels repeatedly airing the film around Christmas Eve for the last 25 years.