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TIL that there were twins born a record 87 DAYS apart

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a88XZ TIL that Volcán Cayambe in Ecuador is the only place on Earth where the equator intersects snow-cover
ybEw TIL that camels are native to North America and used to exist nowhere else in the world.
X6yr TIL George Takai was in a Japanese Internment Camp during WWII.
xVv0B TIL In 2004, Ecuadorians synchronized their watches simultaneously to combat the chronic lateness that was costing their economy $2.5 Billion per year
x6457 TIL a team of researchers at UC Irvine found that the average attention span in 2004 was 150 seconds. In 2012 it was found to be 75 seconds, and recently was found to be 47 seconds.