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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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WkL8N TIL that people sentenced to death by beheading were advised to give the headsman a gold coin to ensure he did not botch the beheading and cause a painful death by multiple strokes
GrxG TIL that a man from Arizona stole a diamond worth $160K and traded it for $20 of weed
P7OJ TIL: ‘Born in the USA’ was 1st CD Made in the US
b9YOa TIL that humans weren't the first species to discover agriculture. That honor belongs to multiple species of ants (and termites) who beat us to it by 50-60 million years.
neYXB TIL that the common method for a spacecraft to shift between two orbits is called a Hohmann Transfer, and that the guy who calculated it (in 1925) was inspired by a science fiction book written in 1897, which gave a generally correct explanation of the concept of orbit trajectory