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TIL that the camel spider, also known as a wind scorpion, is neither a spider nor a scorpion

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BXae TIL that the death toll of the Rwandan Genocide accounted as much as 20% of the country’s total population
yVlk8 TIL John Morales, the actor who played the crime-fighting cartoon character McGruff the Crime Dog, was sentenced to 16 years in prison stemming from a 2011 arrest in which police seized 1,000 marijuana plants, 27 weapons – including a grenade launcher – and 9,000 rounds of ammunition from his home
W7Vm8 TIL that Larry Yount is the only pitcher in Major League Baseball history to be credited with one pitching appearance without facing a batter. In his only major league appearance, on September 15, 1971, he left the game during his warm-up pitches due to injury.
D1dMv TIL That the founder of match.com Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com
d1Wj TIL that when we burn fat, the ‘lost weight’ is exhaled as carbon dioxide and water.