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TIL Grizzly bears' muscles don't atrophy during hibernation because they produce additional amino acids that stimulate muscle cell growth.

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pYY7A TIL the 2010 Lexus SC 430 was the last car to come with a cassette deck in the United States.
KOMvG TIL of a 2015 case of a woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder who had some blind personalities. Even with her eyes open, EEG showed brain activity associated with sight was absent when a blind alter was in control. When a sighted alter assumed control, visual brain activity returned
Xx6k TIL: One man is largely responsible for the complete ban on advertising billboards in the US state of Vermont
4Xj7b TIL of Gonzalo Guerrero, a Spanish soldier shipwrecked in Mexico and taken captive by local Maya. By the time Cortés arrived, he had become a Maya war captain, was married to his Lord's daughter, and fathered the first Mestizo children. He led local Maya resistance until his death in 1532.
dXeQ TIL that the famous theme song to the X-Files was created by accident, when the producer rested his elbow on the keyboard.