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How not to thank the Danes?

In Danish, the expression "Thank you for everything" ("Tak for alt") is similar in meaning to the expression "Rest in peace" and is written on gravestones, so it should not be used in letters of thanks.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Where are camels from?

From North America.

The symbols of the deserts of Arabia and Africa by origin are Americans.

Like horses and dogs, camels evolved on the steppes of America 20 million years ago. True, then they looked more like giraffes or gazelles than like the humpbacked pack giants that we know and love so well. Only 4 million years ago camels decided to cross Beringia - the isthmus that once connected Alaska with Eurasia.

Camels left North America during the last ice age and, unlike horses and dogs, never returned to their historical homeland.

No one knows why North American camels became extinct. Of course, climate change is to blame, first of all. More precisely, the disappearance of camels could be due to changes in the percentage of silicon in pasture grass. As the climate of the North American continent became cooler and drier, the silicon content of grasses tripled. Because of such super-hard food, even the longest-toothed herbivores wore out their incisors, and horses and camels, no longer able to chew food, gradually died of hunger.

There are also a number of indications that these already weakened individuals - the path to Asia for which was now closed forever due to the disappearance of Beringia 10 thousand years ago - were simply finished off by human hunters.

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