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TIL there are over a million wild camels in Australia

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XVj TIL when Einstein died, his brain was taken out of him by a doctor who later disappeared with it. 23 years later, a reporter tracks the brain down to find the brain in hundreds of pieces.
wgB1 TIL J. R. R. Tolkien received from a fan a goblet with the Ring inscription on it in Black Speech. Because the Black Speech in general is an accursed language, and the Ring inscription in particular is a vile spell, Tolkien never drank out of it, and used it only as an ashtray.
X007j TIL Mark Cuban founded a company called Cost Plus Drugs that delivers life-saving medications without price gouging for as little as 0.5% of their normal retail price.
VrR0 TIL when Einstein was told of the publication of a book entitled, ‘100 Authors Against Einstein’, he replied: “Why one hundred? If I were wrong, one would have been enough.”
NX5NM TIL that it's actually possible to communicate with plants