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TIL they use tiny remote-controlled robot jockeys for camel racing (so they don’t have to use children)

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p8Bp4 TIL that when Shaka Zulu's mother died, he ordered that any woman who became pregnant in the year of mourning was to be executed, anyone not sufficiently sad was to be executed, and calves would have their mothers slaughtered so that they would know his pain.
78Nb TIL That according to seismic readings, there is a reservoir of water under the Earth’s surface near Beijing, possibly as large as the Atlantic Ocean.
d8ywB TIL Thomas Jefferson for many years "kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves” named Sally Hemings.
5V07k TIL that Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast was voiced by Detective Lennie Briscoe from Law & Order
0A8v TIL that the Devil in “Tenacious D and The Pick of Destiny” was played by Dave Grohl.