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TIL:Camels can hold a grudge and wait for opportunity to take revenge.

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nWBjr TIL: 50 years ago, American TV reporter, Christine Chubbuck, committed suicide on live TV by shooting herself in the head.
yVd8M TIL that in 1934 a board game called Toward Soviet America was the opposite of Monopoly. The goal was to get rid of the rich and powerful, end oppression, and seize the means of production. The game did not catch on.
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vPZK7 TIL: Maryland was a slave state that sided with the Union, but in 1864, they actually had a referendum to abolish slavery. It narrowly failed - until the absentee ballots from the soldiers at the front came in, at which point it overwhelmingly succeeded.