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TIL Australia has the largest population of camels in the world

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4bEw TIL that C.S. Lewis entered a civil marriage with a woman so she could avoid deportation. Then, after she developed terminal cancer, they eventually fell in love and re-married while she was in the hospital. They were married for three years before she passed away.
D1EKJ TIL of Army Sgt. Joe Kieyoomia; captured by the Japanese, he was first tortured as a traitor, until he could prove he was Navaho, then tortured to get him to help break Code Talker (he couldn't), then kept in a cell in Nagasaki for three years, freeing him three days after the bombing.
nBZo TIL Saudi Arabia and Bahrain recently made a joint bid to host the Olympics with the mens’ events in Saudi Arabia and the womens’ events in Bahrain as women are not allowed to play sports in Saudi Arabia. The IOC vetoed the bid.
kkrm TIL when Peter the Great found his wife had a lover he had the man beheaded, then forced her to keep her lover’s head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom which stood in Catherine’s bedroom till Peter’s death.
lBZ1 TIL James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies was the first movie whose production budget was completely paid for by product placement.