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TIL the first camel imported to Australia shot its owner in a freak accident

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jaxQ TIL that at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, William Wallace defeated British commander Hugh Cressingham, killed him, and used his dried skin to fashion his scabbard, belt, and hilt.
0dNp1 TIL of "sun outages" in days near the equinoxes, in which signals to or from geosynchronous communication satellites are drowned out by the radio noise blasting from the sun as the satellite or the earth from the satellite's POV moves slowly near it.
m1lgx TIL Mozart was actually in the top 5% of wage earners for his time. He squandered most of his money by the time of his death, and was buried in a pauper's grave.