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TIL Project Grizzly is a documentary about a Canadian man who, inspired by Robocop and a bear encounter, determined to make bear-proof body armor. In it he's beaten with 2X4s, thrown off a cliff, and slammed into by a truck at 50km/hr. It's one of Quentin Tarantino's favorite documentaries.

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5YvE9 TIL that the main reason for Japans Surrender in WW2, was not due to the Atomic Bombs, but because the Soviets declared war and lead a massive invasion of Manchuria on the same day as Fat Man was dropped. Surprising the Japanese and dashing any hope of a conditional surrender with Soviet Support.
9DLB TIL OK Go added their 35 minute track “9027 km” on their album “Oh No” in order to prevent their label from using the extra space to add DRM software.
prop TIL: Pope Francis assures atheists: You don’t have to believe in God to go to heaven
LkD6p TIL the current chess grandmaster, Magnus Carlsen, intentionally plays non-book "inaccuracies" during opening (moves he knows aren't the best) to force the game into a non-book position ASAP so his opponents will have to think for themselves instead of going by memorised opening theory
6EgD7 TIL there is giant, hot pink slug. It is only found in a single, isolated forest on an extinct volcano in Australia.