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TIL hundreds of thousands of books for sale on Amazon are created by content generating computer algorithms

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Zy4B TIL Someone made a Jack Torrance twitter account, with over 1 million tweets saying the same thing
v1emD TIL that in 2013, a wild pig at a Port Hedland, Australia campsite made the news after drinking 18 cans of a camper's beer, getting into a fight with a cow, and eventually passing out under a tree.
wLOnY TIL That a sign that a person has low-self esteem is if they feel that other people judge them even if there isn't evidence of other people judging them
J0EB TIL There are approximately 35,000 stray dogs living on the streets of Moscow. Some have learned to obey traffic signals and, through their acute sense of smell, navigate the subway system. There is even a statue for Malchik, a stray dog who was stabbed by a passerby in 2001.
lQoG TIL in WWII,Germans tank drivers in Africa would drive tanks over camel poop for luck. Allies responded by planting land mines disguised as camel dung. Germans got wind of this and began riding over dung that was already overrun with tank tracks. In turn, Allies made mines looking like overrun dung