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TIL that when bears hibernate, they "hold it in" for almost half a year. This is due to a fecal plug that forms in their lower intestine that prevents them from pooping while hibernating.

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5YxEQ TIL Charles Dickens once jumped in through the window of his wife-to-be's home dressed in a sailor suit, did a jig whilst playing the hornpipe, jumped back out the window again and re-entered the room as if nothing had happened.
0rlj TIL in 2012, a skydiver was almost hit by a meteor in mid-air and caught the incident on film (x-post worldnews)
Br99k TIL A woman survived falling over 33,333ft after a bomb exploded on the plane. She holds the Guinness Book of Worlds Records for Highest Fall Survived Without a Parachute.
l7Ona TIL that hypergamy is still a common practice, where men are expected to marry within their caste, or one below, with no social repercussions.
7bGX TIL that there’s an ordinary-looking stream in Yorkshire that’s actually a full size river compressed into a narrow channel, and it’s thought that no-one who’s fallen in has ever survived.