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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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DA8P TIL James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway would travel around Paris together picking fights with larger men
LkXQQ TIL of the concept of Deja Reve. Deja Reve is the same as Deja Vu but instead of feeling that you've experienced an event once before, you instead feel you've dreamt of this event once before.
ZlGv TIL that Tom Waits was arrested in 1977 outside of a coffee shop in Los Angeles. Waits and a friend were trying to stop some men from bullying other patrons. The men were plainclothes police officers, and Waits and his friend were arrested for disturbing the peace.
W7ALo TIL the 16th and 17th century migration of Scots to the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. Tens of thousands settled in Poland leaving a traces such as Polonised Scottish surnames.
ANN0n TIL of the 1967 novel "Bear", a Canadian novel about a women who has a sexual relationship with a bear. It sold a million copies.