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TIL Australia has hundreds of thousands of feral camels.

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woVD8 TIL President John Tyler, America's tenth president, would later get elected to a seat in the Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death.
e4M4 TIL 40,000 Vikings with 700 ships besieged Paris in 885 AD but could not take it and gave up, thanks to the defensive efforts of King Charles the Fat and his Warrior Bishop
mJko TIL: A POW during the Vietnam War named James Stockdale said to survive in such arduous conditions you must renounce optimism for stoicism. His optimistic fellow captives all died. Having a blindly optimistic view worsens your chances of survival. This is called ‘The Stockdale Paradox’.
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