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TIL National Men's Day was a thing.

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yQ8El TIL: camels actually evolved in North America and migrated to the rest of the world via Bering land bridge before becoming extinct in the Americas. They also didn't have humps and were about the size of a beagle.
x6yAw TIL there is a little known statistic in American football called an “octopus”. Players can record an octopus by scoring a touchdown, followed by scoring a 2-pt conversion after that same touchdown.
kJk7E TIL of Mona Parsons, the only Canadian female civilian to be imprisoned by the Nazis. She married a Dutch millionaire and aided downed Allied airmen in WWII till captured in 1941. Sentenced to death, she appealed it and was sentenced to life in prison. She escaped in 1945 and reached Canadian troops
XEg1j TIL of the sport of Extreme Ironing. Exponents take ironing boards to extreme locations and iron garments there. Performances have taken place while doing activities such as skiing, surfboarding, diving and marathon running. Two extreme ironers ironed a Union Jack above Everest base camp in 2003.
0LXN TIL an Irishman called Peter Lacy is considered one of Russia’s greatest generals his tactics helped to defeat the Swedes at Poltava and he managed to cross The Crimea to battle the Turks when others had failed due to his knowledge of weather and tidal patterns