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TIL that Saudi Arabia imports sand and camels from Australia

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0dbJR TIL six Italian scientists were convicted of manslaughter in 2012 and sentenced to 6 years in jail for making inaccurate predictions about the L'Aquila earthquake which killed 309 people in 2009. They were later acquitted on appeal.
mpM TIL many of us are genetically predisposed to hate cilantro.
16W7O TIL: “Miss Unsinkable” Violet Jessop survived the sinking of Titanic then survived the sinking of its sister ship Brittanic. The third sister and class namesake Olympic did not sink but Jessop was on board for its collision with a warship.
awp7y TIL 1 sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds
P1Pxw TIL that Oscar Wilde did boxing whilst at university, and once defeated by himself, four students who attempted to ambush Wilde.