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TIL The annual Saudi Camel Beauty Contest offers $66M in prizes to whomever enters the camel deemed the "most beautiful", however in 2021 40 contestants were ejected from the event for the use of Botox and other "artificial touch-ups"

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N7KYQ TIL the South Koreans gave up their gold to help their country. The gold-collecting campaign was a national sacrificial movement in early 1998 to repay its debt to the International Monetary Fund. The campaign, involving 3.51 million people nationwide, collected 227 tons of gold worth $2.13 billion.
Bg0Kd TIL Levi Stubbs (of the motown group Four Tops) voiced Mother Brain in the 1989 TV series Captain N: The Game Master.
4XkLw TIL about Robert Carey, who took a two day horse ride to Scotland against orders on the death of Elizabeth I to inform her heir of the news so he could get himself a good job with him.
lovoB TIL an Italian show forced Muse to do playback, so they decided to mock the performance by swapping all instruments among themselves.
j6r6p TIL The baby Sacajawea carried for 2000 miles was Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. He was delivered by Meriwether Lewis, raised by William Clark, lived in a German castle for six years, spoke four languages, was a military scout, fur tapper and gold miner. He’s buried in an Oregon ghost town.