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TIL the scientific name of Llamas is ‘Lama Glama’

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4kRrN TIL in 2005 a British Airways 747 (G-BNLG) had an engine flame out and attempted to fly from LAX back to the London Heathrow on 3 engines, it ended up diverting to Manchester Uk instead
E1xgw TIL the Megalania, a venomous 23ft long species of giant monitor lizard, was hunted to extinction by early human inhabitants of Ice Age Australia.
NMV1 TIL there is a bush that is about 11,700 years old.
gMeGL TIL that the Tang Dynasty (618-906 A.D.) of China was considered the golden age and they invented gun powder, made the first gas cylinder, had air conditioning, and a way to print books.
loGd1 TIL that on 18 October 1863, recently freed slaves and dispatched Union soldiers banded together to defend the town of Pine Bluff, Arkansas from marauding Confederates during the Battle of Pine Bluff.