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Today I learned that a 50,000-Year-Old Needle was found in a Denisova Cave

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0ddZM TIL about Jesus García, a 23-year-old railroad brakeman, who died during a train explosion saving the town of Nacozari, Mexico.
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D8Og TIL that the founding father of Dubai said this about his city’s future: “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel”
wLZR1 TIL that the Spinifex Hopping Mouse has one of the most efficient kidneys of any animal and creates its own water through metabolic processes. They produce solid urine with very little water.
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