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TIL in 2009, 6000 camels invaded an Australian town and seized their water supplies

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mRRO TIL Ernest Hemingway invented a cocktail: Absinthe and Champagne or, “Death in the Afternoon.”
Y7e6x TIL Thomas Edison coined the term "Bug" when a machine doesn't work decades before Grace Hopper found a dead moth in a computer in the 1940s, which is where most people attribute its origins to.
XEoK8 TIL some children during the Industrial Revolution were so poor their schools had to lend them shoes - and stamp them with a warning not to pawn them for money for food
gMd59 TIL that Viggo Mortensen bought the horse his character Aragon rode on during Lord of the Rings because he got so attached to it.
R78R8 TIL about the story Margaret Ann Bulkley, who dressed as a man for 56 years to become her alter-ego, Dr James Miranda Barry, 50 years before women were allowed to enroll into medical schools. Her secret was exposed when she died, after 46 years working as an army medical officer