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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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Brjgd TIL the concept of the Hogwart’s houses in the Harry Potter series, was difficult to communicate for translators of foreign editions since in some cultures there was no way of adequately describing the significance of belonging to house or being loyal to one.
yonp TIL Walt Disney originally planned EPCOT to be a functioning Utopian city of the future.
nWN0G TIL in the Congo Free State soldiers had to provide the severed hand of Congolese they shot as proof they weren’t misusing munition, but in practice the hands became a sort of currency since they allowed soldiers to save bullets, leading to them cutting the hand off living people
DQa4r TIL Men are like apes when competing for status
e9B6 TIL the number of Americans who don’t read books has nearly tripled since 1978.