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TIL Christianity existed in China as early as 635 AD

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bdR9 TIL that dromedary piss is almost syrupy in texture, and their dung is so dry that bedouins used it to light fires. This purpose of this adaptation is to conserve as much water as possible in the desert.
bG7Z TIL of Aki Ra, a former child soldier forced to lay landmines in Cambodia who now spends his time removing mines from around the country. He has personally removed as many as 50,000 mines and started by using only a knife, a hoe, a stick and a Leatherman.
awdnM TIL Stanley Kubrick wanted to use Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother suite in A Clockwork Orange. Pink Floyd's bassist Roger Waters refused when he found out Kubrick would edit the music to fit the film. Later, Waters asked Kubrick to use sounds from 2001: A Space Odyssey on a record. Kubrick refused.
GApN TIL that there is DNA evidence proving that Polynesians visited the Americas (Chile) in the 1300s, well before Columbus ever reached the New World; there are also stories of Polynesians seeing Antarctica around the year 650, “a place of bitter cold where rock-like structures rose from a solid sea”
P0Zn TIL all Pure-bred Border Collies can trace their lineage back to one dog, born in 1893, “Old Hemp”