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TIL camel bites can cause your bones to dissolve

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VMd9Z TIL the English horn is not english at all. Its name comes from a mistranslation "cor angle", which means "angled horn" in French, heard instead as "cor anglais."
yd48 TIL in 1998 Serena Williams claimed she could beat any male tennis player ranked over 200, Karsten Braasch, ranked 203 at the time, accepted the challenge and beat Serena 6-1, followed by Venus 6-2. Subsequently Serena then changed her claim to any male player ranked over 350, but never challenged.
XL8P TIL: Ja Rule has plans to write a microwave cookbook based on meals he made in prison
kOvGe TIL Instagram started as a Whiskey meetup app. After analyzing how people used it, they relaunched it as Instagram, and sold it for $1bn two years later
ew94 TIL that incompetent people don’t know they’re incompetent and completely overestimate their abilities, while truly competent people are filled with doubts and often underestimate their own abilities - it’s called the Dunning Kruger effect.