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TIL Australia has the largest population of camels in the world

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m9ox TIL Cheetahs meow like house cats
E1rpV TIL about Project 100,000. A controversial Vietnam War era program by the US DoD to draft 100,000 low-IQ men a year for the Vietnam War. Dubbed, “Macnamara’s Morons” more than 5,000 were killed in the war, 3x the rate when compared to other soldiers.
GYk1E TIL After Charlotte Corday was executed by guillotine, a man named Legros lifted her head and slapped it on the cheeks, an expression of "unequivocal indignation" then appeared on her face suggesting that victims of the guillotine may retain consciousness for a short while
OoQxe TIL about corriearklet, the word describing the moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven’t, to avoid the embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.
D18wJ TIL: One of the founding fathers died from sticking a whalebone up his peehole.