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TIL that the US Army field tested the use of camels in the American Southwest before the Civil War

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GY9yJ TIL after Melbourne gave email addresses to trees so residents could report problems, they instead recieved love letters
KYK66 TIL about PCR, which is a technique to make billions of copies of a specific DNA from a very small sample. The mix containing DNA is repeatedly heated and cooled, this breaks the DNA molecule and then duplicates it exponentially. The secret? A bacteria living in hot springs has a special enzyme
4XKmJ TIL that Rory McCann [Sandor Clegane] lives a "solitary, transient" lifestyle, often living on a boat and in places without modern conveniences.
aw7mA TIL "who's cutting onions in here" goes back at least as far as Shakespeare. In All's Well That Ends Well, the old lord Lafeu explains his emotion during the final scene by saying "Mine eyes smell onions"
b6pe7 TIL that 70 year old Robert Maudsley has been kept in a solitary confinement cell designed specifically for him since 1983, after committing three murders while already locked up for that same crime