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TIL: Over 60% of polar bears live in Canada

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NXYwM TIL about documents of Human-Orca encounters when SeaWorld used to let people get close to them. One of these stories mentions how an orca supposedly 'reverse trained' the Human, using the methods Orca trainers trained Orcas with, to pet them near their blowhole, because the human was hesitating to.
B6ld TIL that U.S. Federal Affirmative Action regulations specify that minority status cannot supersede merit in hiring decisions, and “(q)uotas are expressly forbidden.”
NX0nM TIL pineapples grow in bushes, not on trees.
ADONn TIL a Pakistani child Iqbal Masih was a victim of child slavery who escaped his owners and became a national advocate for children rights fighting against child labour and freeing many children. After receiving an award in the USA and returning to Pakistan, he was assassinated aged 12
nenpd TIL Al Capone was the first person to open a soup kitchen to feed the poor during the Depression. At a time of 25 percent unemployment, Capone's kitchens served three meals a day to ensure that everyone who had lost a job could get a meal. Soon, every city and town had a soup kitchen.