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TIL there’s a part of Canada that has black bears, grizzly bears, AND polar bears.

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7rDlb TIL Lorne Michaels - the creator of SNL - considers Steven Seagal to be the biggest jerk ever on the show. Seagal is banned from ever hosting the show again.
9w4V6 TIL France had it's own version of the world wide web with millions of users before it took off in America
GAMA5 TIL far beneath the pacific ocean, at the boundary between the earth's molten mantle and its outer core, there is a continent-sized natural structure called Jason
e0GWb TIL that shrapnel is named after its inventor - General Henry Shrapnel
8a4vK TIL about the sci-fi novel "Across the Zodiac" by Percy Greg published in 1880, notable for being the first instance of an alien language in an English novel, the first recorded instance of "astronaut", and the progenitor of the "sword-and-planet" genre of science fiction.