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TIL that camels don't store water but food reserves in their humps. Their extra water is stored in the bloodstream,

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E1690 TIL the Bon Jovi song “August 7, 4:15”’was written about the strange death of his tour manager’s daughter who was just 6. She was found at the side of the road just a few houses away from her house. Her cause of death was blunt force trauma but what killed her remains speculation today.
VbBk TIL there was a Native American warrior named Osh-Tisch (Finds Them and Kills them) who was born a biological male but lived and dressed as a woman, a practice known as “badé” in Crow.
7vxP TIL that 80% of males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II.
GAJP5 TIL that until earlier this year it was legal for apartments in Austin, Texas to have no windows, and that landlords often didn't disclose this in advertisements
kNwW TIL: The Canadian RCMP systematically slaughtered the sled dogs of the Inuit until as late as the 1970s