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TIL of John ‘Grizzly’ Adams, who died after a wound he incurred from fighting his one of his pet grizzlies left his brain tissue exposed. A monkey subsequently bit into the wound, leading to meningitis, and ultimately his death.

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K91E TIL the 1998 war film “The Thin Red Line” was cut from an initial five hours to three and a half after over a year of editing. Performances by Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Sheen, Gary Oldman and other notable actors were cut entirely, while others like George Clooney’s were reduced to cameos.
4kWAJ TIL of the "Portuguese India run," or Carreira da Índia. Starting around 1500, it was the major maritime route from Europe to India. Due to counter-clockwise currents in the south Atlantic, ships from Europe first sailed out into the open ocean to Brazil then continued to the bottom of Africa.
5A9D TIL Texas attorney general threatened international observers from OSCE with arrests and criminal charges if they were to monitor the 2012 elections in that state.
oB4jR TIL In Back to the Future, the original idea was for the time machine to be a refrigerator, but because Robert Zemeckis was afraid that kids would imitate the film and get trapped in fridges, they changed it to a DeLorean car.
xVwm5 TIL that Syria cuts out the internet during the high school examinations