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

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X0ZaD TIL Due to the similarity between the Irish and Ivory Coast flags, when the Ivory Coast athlete Murielle Ahouré won the 2018 world indoor 60-meter dash, she borrowed an Irish flag from a spectator and reversed it.
yXJM TIL that Conan O'Brien has majored in history and literature, graduated with a magna cum laude from Harvard University, and wrote his senior thesis on the use of children as symbols in the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor
5VK89 TIL about Lucin (also known as Umbria Junction), a ghost town in Utah. Abandoned in 1936 by its original occupants, the community was resettled by 4 retired railroad workers and their families from 1937 until 1972, and again by 4 owner-residents in the 1990s.
njYY TIL Vultures and Condors are not actually closely related, but superficially similar only due to convergent evolution.
j0DQ TIL all captive white tigers can be traced to a single tiger origin. Every white tiger since has been inbred again and again causing major deformities at birth. They are also not a subspecies, thus not endangered, and only kept around to bring in more money.