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TIL that Australia has the Largest population of wild Camels.

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p84yb TIL Allee Willis was originally bothered by the 'ba-dee-ya' lyric in song 'September'. "I just said, 'What the fuck does 'ba-dee-ya' mean?' And [White] said, 'Who the fuck cares?' I learned my greatest lesson ever in songwriting from him, which was never let the lyric get in the way of the groove."
v17aR TIL the reason Corgis have short legs is because they were selectively bred for a type of dwarfism, called Chondrodysplasia, over hundreds of years. This gene, FGF4, proved dominant, and there no longer exists a single purebred Welsh Corgi without the genetic condition of achondroplastic dwarfism.
E1O5p TIL In Quebec, both spouses keep their birth names after marriage and continue to exercise their civil rights under that name, meaning they must use their birth name in contracts, on credit cards, on their driver’s licence, and so on. This rule applies even if they were married outside Quebec.
E1pQV TIL There are chatbots made using AI that replicates a dead relative.
AOr4 TIL there is a custom in Japan called “Namahage” in which men dressed up as demon-like monsters scare the living shit out of children who are “guilty of laziness or bad behavior” while parents smile and laugh while their children scream and cry in terror. (Video in comments)