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TIL that in the 1880s and 1890s, a camel roamed the Arizona desert for a decade with a corpse strapped to its back

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XEX8P TIL a Graveyard Spiral is a phenomenon when a plane is titled and flying in a descending spiral, but the pilot doesn't detect the tilting and tries to correct the descent by pulling up, but this only tightens the spiral until the plane crashes.
nW6P9 TIL that New Jersey and Rhode Island are the only 2 US states where you will not face criminal prosecution for incest
6gBw TIL that the heads of suicide bombers are usually left intact, even though the rest of the body is blown to bits.
gML8A TIL during WWII the Dominican Republic took in 100,000 Jewish people fleeing Europe
xVj70 TIL that on the Mississippi River in the 1850s, the word "two" was often pronounced "twain." When leadsmen measured a depth of two fathoms, they shouted "mark twain!" The American writer Mark Twain, a former river pilot from Missouri, got his pen name from this phrase.