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TIL that Male Dromedary camels have an organ in their throat called "dulla" they spit out to attract females

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gMMXb TIL Before becoming famous for Disney movies, Tim Allen was convicted of drub trafficking, almost sentenced to mandatory life in prison, got 7 years and served 3
69l9Y TIL it takes orders of magnitude greater computational resources to recognise a loved one in a photograph than it does to perform a complex arithmetic calculation. This is called Moravec's paradox. We effortlessly do as humans what computers find incredibly demanding, and vice versa.
lo4D5 TIL that in 2014 when impoverished Ivory Coast cocoa farmers were asked what they were growing was made into, they didn’t know. The farmers knew cocoa was some type of food but they had never heard of or tasted chocolate until reporters brought them a chocolate bar to try.
P1ZlL TIL that in 2008, a gamma ray burst was observed from 7.5 billion light years away. It was visible with the naked eye for about 30 seconds, and if viewed from the same distance as the sun it would be 21 quadrillion times brighter.
WB09 TIL in 2004 a 15 year old girl was bit by a bat she picked up. After showing signs of rabies a month later, doctors devised a last ditch experimental treatment that cured her. She is the first known person to have survived after showing rabies symptoms