› added 4 years ago

165

TIL Australia has a large feral camel population (300k)

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

dPE7 TIL that up to 10% of chickens have a newly-discovered muscle disorder called “woody breast,” which causes their breast meat to be unusually hard and rubbery.
7rZdO TIL that a company knowingly sold dangerous breaker panels that were installed in tons of U.S. homes, including mine. They still cause fires. Check your breaker panel!
OoK54 TIL Charles McCarthy decided to take his own life rather than fall into enemy hands. The Ashanti promptly removed his head and took it in triumph back to their capital at Kumasi. It was made into a gold-rimmed drinking cup for the use of their king.
9MZX TIL in 2012 there more deaths in active military due to suicide than war death
1awdD TIL that in 2010 the Pope’s astronomer, Guy Consolmagno, claimed that if extra terrestrial life were ever to be discovered, and an alien life form requested the sacrament of baptism, then he would gladly baptise the alien.