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TIL Australia has hundreds of thousands of feral camels.

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BrKjy TIL the 2007 horror movie "Paranormal Activity" was made on a budget of $15,000 and grossed $193 million at the box office.
ne5lW TIL the first commercial fax service, between Lyon and Paris France in 1865, by Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli, was created 11 years before the invention of the telephone.
x6975 TIL that Judith Love Cohen, an aerospace engineer, was troubleshooting problems with schematics on the day she went into labor, called her boss to let him know she had fixed the problem and then delivered Jack Black.
Wk4Ld TIL that Nas began recording his signature album, Illmatic, when he was only 18 years old.
X8dD TIL about Hoda Sharaawi, founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union. She became famous when in 1923 she removed her veil in public, causing outrage with authorities.