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TIL that Australia exports live camels to the Middle East as the disease free Australian camels are prized as a delicacy.

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P15gJ TIL Sony implemented a marketing strategy for their Walkman by hiring young adults to walk around in public wearing a Walkman, offering intrigued passers-by the opportunity to test out the product.
W4d8 TIL that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Canada declared war on Japan before the United States did.
DrPJ TIL A guy named Ole Worm found evidence that “lemmings were rodents and not, as some thought, spontaneously generated by the air.”
VBLB4 TIL about the atlantropa, a gigantic engineering and colonisation idea that was devised by the German architect Herman Sörgel in the 1920s, and promoted by him until his death in 1952. The project was devised to contain several hydroelectric dams in key points of the Mediterranean Sea.
VPKm TIL a Japanese Oil Tanker captain fell into a cactus at a Santa Barbra Oil Field, provoking laughter from the local workers. 5 years later he returned in an Imperial Japanese Navy sub and made the first mainland shelling of the US at that oil field.