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TIL: Until 2009, India accounted for more than half of the world’s polio cases. It has now had three consecutive years without new polio cases.

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EJyP TIL scientists once recruited theater students to stumble drunkenly into 153 Norwegian bars and ask for another drink. They found that bartenders were much more likely to over-serve drunk women than men.
nYO9 TIL the world’s fastest camera records at 4.4trillion frames per second at a resolution of 450x450 and is capable of recording individual photons.
5YNoD TIL that Lisa Marie Presley the daughter of Elvis Presley threw Nicolas Cage’s $65,000 engagement ring into the ocean during a fight on his yacht. Cage hired professional divers to find the ring, but the ring was never recovered.
ADNQx TIL that between 1856-1866 the United States Military experimented with a "Camel Corps" for use in the Southwestern United States.
KYQYa TIL Mad Cow Disease is caused by cattle consuming the remains of other cattle as part of their diet