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TIL camel bites can cause your bones to dissolve

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klWd TIL the longest work of fiction ever written is a Super Smash Bros. fanfic. As of last year, it was 3,548,615 words long, six times longer than “War and Peace.”
KYDZJ TIL about the “Little Joe Penetrometer:” A pistol crossbow prototype weapon designed by the OSS for covert operations in WW2.
e8pg TIL that there was a 12 year ban on athletes with intellectual disabilities competing in the Paralympic Games because of the Spanish Basketball Team cheating in the 2000 Games by having 10 members pretend they had a disability.
e0ZZg TIL that glass blocks the wavelength of light required for the body to synthesize Vitamin D.
kJ1M4 TIL The rings of Saturn are only about 10 meters thick