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TIL that Joanne Barnaby was being stalked by a wolf in the forest when she came across a bear that was separated from her cub. Exhausted, she decided to stand between the bear and her cub in the hopes that the bear would find the wolf threatening. It did, attacking the wolf while she escaped.
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Submitted March 01, 2019 at 01:03AM by ChaseDonovan
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TIL that any Canadian citizen, who has lived in the Yukon for at least one year, can get free land from the government, provided they are willing to farm it.
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Submitted February 28, 2019 at 11:27PM by Swankishesque
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TIL that John Caglione Jr, the makeup artist responsible for Heath Ledgers Joker, had Ledger scrunch and contort his face as he applied the makeup. This had the affect of creating lines and creases in the paint to make it look like the character had been wearing his makeup for days.
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Submitted March 01, 2019 at 02:38AM by ChaseDonovan
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TIL that in 1932 three bear species and wolves were put in the same enclosure. They lived peacefully at first, but the polar bears eventually drowned multiple black bears by pushing them into a pool and holding them down. The manager blamed the black bears for “not learning not to go near the pool.”
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Submitted March 01, 2019 at 03:45AM by R0wanAtkinson
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TIL that Surgeons who had played video games in the past for more than three hours per week made 37 percent fewer errors, were 27 percent faster and scored 26 percent better overall than surgeons who never played video games.
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Submitted March 01, 2019 at 05:11AM by pingpong2019
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TIL in 1913 John Rockefeller owned 2% of the US GDP, an amount that today would be worth over $409 billion and make him 3 times richer than Jeff Bezos
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Submitted March 01, 2019 at 06:33AM by Hendrix_Lamar
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TIL An American Airlines Plane was stolen by two men that worked with mechanics to get the aircraft flight-ready. The plane has never been found.
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Submitted March 01, 2019 at 05:48AM by ernestomv0835
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TIL the G-Spot was going to be called the “Whipple Tickle” after its discoverer, Dr Beverley Whipple, but Whipple wanted it named after Dr Ernst Grafenberg, who was the first to suggest the presence of some kind of sensitive area, instead
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Submitted March 01, 2019 at 01:59PM by ProphetOfTheNarwhal
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TIL that scientists have discovered a breed of banana which is immune to the fungus threatening the current kind of banana
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Submitted March 01, 2019 at 02:20PM by kishenoy
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TIL a word - Groak - which means to stare at someone intently and expectantly, hoping that they give you some of their food.
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Submitted March 01, 2019 at 07:58AM by missdoubtfirexyz
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TIL that for centuries there has been a secret wing to a museum in Naples, where all the erotic art found in Pompeii was locked away. The cabinet remained closed for more than a hundred years – the doorway even bricked up at one point – and was only fully opened to the public in 2000.
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Submitted March 01, 2019 at 05:42PM by Virble
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TIL The reason why we view neanderthals as hunched over and degenerate is that the first skeleton to be found was arthritic.
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Submitted March 01, 2019 at 08:34PM by metkja
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TIL that MTV refused to play "Billie Jean" and had never played any other video by Jackson or a black artist. Only after CBS Records president threatened to pull every video clip from his company and expose the racial discrimination MTV relented.
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Submitted March 01, 2019 at 06:01PM by zirfeld
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TIL that when it launched, the iconic "Big Gulp" from 7-11 was an unprecedented 32 oz. Today, this is the same size as some medium-sized beverages.
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Submitted March 01, 2019 at 04:24PM by WanderingIdiocy
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TIL due to a 4 year old boy misunderstanding his mother, young children diagnosed with cystic fibrosis are taught to say "65 roses" to help them pronounce the condition.
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Submitted March 01, 2019 at 08:02PM by Dance_Monkee_Dance
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TIL Ron Howard stated that, after the first test preview of the film Apollo 13, one of the comment cards indicated "total disdain"; the audience member had written that it was a "typical Hollywood" ending and that the crew would never have survived.
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Submitted March 01, 2019 at 09:13PM by deanoplex
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TIL that the Spanish flu killed more people in 1 year than AIDS did in 40, and more than the bubonic plague did in a century.
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Submitted March 01, 2019 at 09:36PM by Original_mango
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