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TIL that Carrie Fisher's ashes were placed in a giant Prozac pill urn

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rNLdd TIL there is a grizzly–polar bear hybrid, often called a grolar bear or a pizzly bear, a rare hybrid between a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) and a polar bear (Ursus maritimus). These hybrids occur when the two species interbreed, typically in regions where their habitats overlap.
N7KKJ TIL Eric Idle, of Monty Python, wrote a science fiction novel about a robot trying to understand human comedy.
LQwEP TIL: The apartheid government in South Africa had paid kill squads that silenced those that spoke out. Seemingly regardless of public profile or race
E1wLW TIL that during World War II, George H. W. Bush’s plane was shot down over Japan. He was one of 9 men on board. The other 8 men were captured and eaten.
Kr06 TIL a 54-yo man was riding a train in Essex when 6 women emerged from a toilet and attacked him, punching and kicking him out onto a platform where he fell on another woman who accused him of trying to steal her bag and punched him in the face. There was no explanation for the attack.