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TIL the first subminiature luxury (spy) item camera was produced in 1936 by Latvia while most publicly available cameras were huge.

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Wk7kL TIL the Creole pig of Haiti was deliberately exterminated in the 1980s to stop an outbreak of African swine fever. Peasants were provided with imported pigs from the U.S. as compensation, but this caused many of them to lose money as the American pigs were much more expensive to maintain.
8ag1K TIL in 2005 the president of Georgia fired the country's entire traffic police force of around 30,000 officers due to widespread corruption.
KeB TIL that there are two known instances of beaches being stolen
W7LV8 TIL of Tarrare, a man who was constantly hungry and would eat anything from corks, stones, live animals, human blood and was even suspected of eating a toddler
Z8awQ TIL that one of the current top US Tennis players is named Tennys, and is from Tennessee.