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TIL Google once hired a camel to do street-view photography.

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nk49 TIL that Chickens (and all birds) still have the genes for building teeth in their DNA. The reason they don’t have teeth is that they don’t have a gene that says “use that tooth blueprint in the mouth”.
grr1W TIL that in the 19th century people formed Fat Mens Clubs that celebrated overeating and being obese
ANmaw TIL The Glencree German War Cemetery (German: Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Glencree) is located in the valley of Glencree, County Wicklow, Ireland.The cemetery was dedicated on 9 July 1961. There are 134 graves. Most are Luftwaffe (air force),or Kriegsmarine (navy) personnel.
xwR1 TIL Actor Samuel L. Jackson had a stuttering problem as a child and still sometimes battles with it today. To combat the stutter he uses the curse word “motherf**ker” as an affirmation word.
D1k9g TIL Bon Scott of AC/DC once tried to join the Australian Army, but was rejected on the grounds of being "socially maladjusted".