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TIL camels can drink 200L (53 US gal) of water in 3 minutes.

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jVXn TIL North Korea has developed its own scoring system for basketball. Three points for a dunk, four points for a three pointer that doesn’t touch the rim, and eight points for a basket scored in the final three seconds.
neePd Some concern is beneficial but obsessing is often futile.
QN0eE TIL The Great Mississippi Flood of 1993 was caused intentionally by the perpetrator James Robert Scott so that he could party free of his wife's interference!
wo6X6 TIL about Operation Paul Bunyan, where the US cut down a tree in the Korean DMZ as a response to the murder of two officers, deploying over 800 soldiers and air support without any shots fired. The operation left a 19-foot stump as a reminder of the incident.
lQLr TIL The United States has just 4.4% of the world population, but 22% of the worlds prisoners