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TIL theres a woman from Memphis that grows fingernails instead of hair…

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Z8v1R TIL that the shamisen, a Japanese stringed instrument, was traditionally made of dog or cat skin
mxjLy TIL Forty-three giant busts of U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.
bZ4Q TIL there is still a woman alive who lost her fiance in World War I. Grace Jones, the last living Briton born before 1900, says she never married after the death of her young fiance Albert Rees in the war as she never found anyone as nice as him
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b9Aga TIL that camels store upwards of 30kg of nutrient rich fat in their humps. During times of famine and drought, the fat is absorbed to nourish the camel and the hump actually goes limp like a deflated balloon when the fat is depleted.