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

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5M0R TIL although Americans have the most unfavorable perception of Iran in the world, most Iranians have positive attitudes towards the American people.
9xoB TIL there’s a bird that migrates from Alaska to Africa and back every year
dmAj TIL that the Skype was initially named as “Sky peer-to-peer”, which was then abbreviated to “Skyper”.
xVdQo TIL laws restricting Chinese people to merchant visas made many Chinese restaurants in the U.S. These visas were only for fancy shops and the person had to run it for a year. Some groups used all their cash to open a nice restaurant and then switch who ran it each year so that they'd all get visas.
8a9vX TIL that Henry VIII never had sex with his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, because he believed that she had a “bad” appearance. He later complained that he had been misled by people about her looks and a court painting had exaggerated her beauty. The marriage was later annulled.