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TIL Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand

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D1MNp TIL there are more than three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor.
QVGa TIL that Nazis presented the first epidemiological study linking tobacco use and cancer and launched the first and most broadly reaching anti-smoking campaign of modern times.
0da6R TIL The golden age of Jewish culture in Spain was a Muslim ruled era of Spain, with the state name of Al-Andalus, lasting 800 years, whose state lasted from 711 to 1492 A.D.
ek5D TIL The founder of Scientology fought a 70 hour battle with two non-existent Japanese submarines after operating his ships SONAR wrong.
D1gjJ TIL a man living near The Gap cliffs in Sydney, Australia helped save over 160 people trying to commit suicide by just talking with them and inviting them into his home for tea over a 45 year time period.