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TIL that at Mullingar Equestrian Centre in Ireland, the 2006 Christmas party was cancelled due to act of camel. Gus, a camel appearing in the holiday show, got out of his enclosure, bit open and drank six cans of Guinness beer, and then ate 200 mince pies.

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9YEoQ TIL before 1975, the BBC overwrote or destroyed old show tapes. Hundreds of Doctor Who episodes were thought lost forever, until a worldwide hunt began to turn them up—e.g. 2 in a London Mormon Church, and a goldmine 9 in Nigeria (employees had ignored instructions to burn them). 97 remain unfound.
J4g4 TIL A professinal linguist in Native American languages was asked to invent Klingon for Star Trek. He speaks Klingon, but notes that others have attained greater fluency
oRYGE TIL that babies don’t have knee caps and they don’t fully develop until around 10 years
j6OxE TIL about the Chinese use of “oracle bones”, in which questions about the future into the bones of oxen or turtles. The bones are then heated, which caused cracks to appear on them. These cracks were then interpreted in various ways in order to predict the future.
l77QN TIL the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) was invented by British retailer W H Smiths because they were moving to a computerized warehouse in 1967. It was approved as a ISO standard in 1970.