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TIL Pandas don’t breed well in captivity because both male and female giant pandas have to be interested in each other in order to mate

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awd19 TIL that most of the characters in Half life 2 were modeled after real people.
x6oW0 TIL that in 1996 a 7-year-old Californian girl tried to fly an airplane across the US and crashed in a thunderstorm, killing her. This resulted in a law banning children from flying.
Y7pwv TIL that bear spray can actually attract bears that smell it (but don’t get directly sprayed with it).
ZwrR TIL Stephen King sued producers for attaching his name to the 1992 film “The Lawnmower Man” because it “‘bore no meaningful resemblance’ to his story.”
gr7bW TIL about the Nivelle Offensive a Franco-British operation on the Western Front in the First World War which was named after General Robert Nivelle, the commander-in-chief of the French metropolitan armies, who led the offensive. The failure of the offensive caused the French army to mutiny.