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TIL: Australia has the world's largest herd of wild camels. the population is estimated to be about 3 million, spread across 37% of the Australian mainland.

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jN0eX TIL it used to be common for woman in the US to wear extremely long metal hatpins but in 1910 hatpins longer than 9 inches were banned because woman were using them for self-defence and/or accidentally killing people with them.
D1ErP TIL that the barge 'Akademik Lomonosov' in the Russian Far East is the world's first floating nuclear power station. It is also the world's northernmost nuclear power plant.
jNAOj TIL about Sam Ballard, a 29 year old Aussie who died 8 years after eating a slug on a dare. The slug carried rat lungworm, a rare parasite that can penetrate the intestine, traverse the nervous system, and burrow into the brain’s outer lining. While most infected recover, the parasite can be fatal.
vDPL TIL there are a total of 3,863,484 unique Lego bricks in ‘The Lego Movie’. Recreating the movie would require 15,080,330 Lego pieces, with 183 different types of Lego minifigures.
Yk7W TIL the monkeys in Community, Night at the Museum, The Hangover Part II and Doctor Dolittle are all played by the same capuchin monkey named Crystal.