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

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yQlOX TIL of Vince Coleman, a train dispatcher who gave his life in the 1917 Halifax explosion to save hundreds of lives. His last message was: "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
0wJP1 TIL The Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi has been been freezing and storing blue-fin tuna. They expect prices to skyrocket once the blue-fin tuna is extinct. They will own the only remaining supply.
Vnd0 TIL: For the past two decades, 10 percent of all the electricity consumed in the United States has come from Russian nuclear warheads.
epW44 TIL that the most venomous snake in the world is not a sea snake but the Inland Taipan, from Australia.
P0wG TIL Stanislav Petrov holds the title as “The man who saved the world” after stopping all out nuclear war