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TIL of Death Bear, a person in a seven-foot-tall bear costume who could be summoned via text message to visit New York homes to collect and remove painful reminders of breakups

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9YwNX TIL about the Great Filter, a theory that suggests the reason we haen't found life in space is because they don't pass through a part of their evolution known as the Great Filter, which wipes out the species. Worse, humans won't know if we pass through the filter until it'd be too late to save us.
jNQ8N TIL that one of the findings of the Kinsey Scale study was that men trended towards homosexuality more so than women, contrary to the perception that women were more homosexually inclined. Kinsey speculated that this perception was a product of "wishful thinking" on the part of heterosexual men.
ANl6n TIL The Californian seagull is landlocked Utah's state bird
oBXAE TIL a 1991 Soviet television adaptation of The Lord of the Rings thought to have been lost to time was rediscovered and posted on YouTube last week
M4ya TIL that despite being very similar in appearance, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are not identical, but fraternal twins.