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TIL Camels have been used often in battles because their smell and weird looks scare horses

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yVNjM TIL: Serial Killer Albert Fish, an extreme masochist, enjoyed lighting his anus on fire and filling it with needles. When he was arrested he had more than 29 needles permanently lodged in his pelvic area.
oga8 TIL Cliché comes from the sound made when plates with commonly used words or phrases were fitted into a printing press. These plates were called stereotypes.
R5Z46 TIL that in 1973, artist Chris Burden took a handgun, aimed it at an airplane taking off from Los Angeles International Airport, and fired several shots. The act was filmed for a performative art piece titled 747. The piece was meant to depict the idea that you cannot regulate everybody.
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