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TIL That a legendary killer camel terrorized 19th century Arizonians by stomping them to death. Oh, and he had a rotting skeleton tied to his back as he prowled the Southwest.

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6EeDZ TIL During the University of Texas shooting, pregnant student Claire Wilson was shot, and her fiance killed. While Wilson lay crying out for help directly in the sniper's view, student Rita Starpattern ran to her and played dead for 90 minutes, talking to Wilson to keep her awake until help arrived.
e6PE TIL the RMS Olympic (sister ship to the titanic) was the only merchant vessel in WW1 to sink an enemy u-boat. It rammed it despite having the speed to steam out of range of the sub.
VBrmm TIL that between 1840 and 1930, a pod of killer whales helped whalers shepherd and kill baleen whales by herding them into a bay then swimming to the whalers to alert them of the target whales
Oyn4 TIL as a 23 year old, Bear Grylls became one of the youngest Britons to climb Mt. Everest – 18 months after breaking three vertebrae in a parachuting accident.
LQ7Z0 TIL that one of the earliest elevators was built by King Louis XV to sneak in his mistress past the courtiers at Versailles Palace. It could only carry one person at a time and was a practically a caged chair being lifted by a pulley.