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TIL: Camels served in the US Civil War

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4OnX TIL The half brother of the last Emperor of China is still alive at 94 years old
j6xwR TIL That Michael Flatley aka “The Lord of The Dance” wrote, produced, directed and starred in ‘Blackbird’, a widely panned 2018 spy thriller.
gpBX TIL: A caterpillar basically turns into a soupy liquid while in the pupa state before it rearranges itself and turns into a butterfly. The butterfly also retain some of its memories of things learnt as a caterpillar.
gZx4 TIL - that an explorer and adventurer went missing in the Amazon in 1925 searching for El Dorado. Since then, around 100 people have died trying to find him, and as recently as 1996 an expedition to find his remains only got out after paying a ransom to their Kalapalo captors.
1akR7 TIL of Bruce Patterson, a British man who in 2010 managed to put six Cadbury's Creme Eggs in his anus. Five years later he managed to break his own record by anally inserting nine of them.