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TIL Google once hired a camel to do street-view photography.
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TIL that James Cameron decided to quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry after watching Star Wars.
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TIL Mark Twain despised Jane Austen and was quoted as saying: “Everytime I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone”
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TIL the Soviet Union closed down many churches and reopened them as Museums of Atheism dedicated to scientific education and anti-religious exhibitions
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TIL that in Hawaii in 2018 it took over 38 minutes for an alert to be sent out clarifying that an initial alert sent to individuals in Hawaii was a mistake and there was no imminent missile threat inbound
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TIL that there is a cemetery in Romania famous for their vibrant and colorful tombstones that artfully depict scenes from the buried person’s life, most often involving how they died. Each tombstone also has a poetic epitaph inscription.