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TIL in 2008, a panda at a zoo in southern China attacked a man who wanted a cuddle. “Yangyang was so cute and I just wanted to cuddle him,” Liu was quoted as saying from his hospital bed.

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A1Ya TIL a man snuck into Vietnam at the height of the Vietnam War to find his 3 best friends and buy them a beer..known today as the “Greatest Beer Run Ever”
6Dxw TIL that Jeremy Bentham, a famous ethicist, still attends board meetings at University College of London because the board approved that he could attend every meeting. Disregarding the fact that he has been dead for 83 years now.
rNRdW TIL that your pupils dilate and constrict if you just think about things that are bright and dark, rather than see light. They also change size in response to arousal and effort, and pupil size could determine if someone has aphantasia.
PYpxO TIL that in 2012, after the Kazakhstan's shooting team won a medal at the championships in Kuwait, instead of the country's national anthem being played, the joke national anthem from the Borat movie was played.
6ENJm TIL that an officer was transferred off the Titanic shortly before she sailed. He packed his quarters quickly and accidentally left the ship with a key in his pocket - the key to the crow's nest cabinet where they kept the lookout's binoculars.