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TIL that there has never been a recorded instance of someone being killed by a black bear mother defending her cubs

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rRvr1 TIL A US Senator realized that the English translation of Mein Kampf left out a lot of the most hateful ideologies of Hitler and made him seem more sympathetic. So the Senator wrote his own TL:DR of the book so Americans would know how evil Hitler was.
5gbD TIL Michael Keaton is a screen name, his legal name is still Michael Douglas, but can’t be used due to SAG rules.
5vvn TIL Buddhism predicts its own demise. We are currently in the second thousand years of the Dharma-Ending stage and there are 9000 years left before all Buddhist teachings have been lost or forgotten.
5ygD TIL “The Declaration of Independence” by John Trumbull doesn’t actually depict the signing of the declaration, but rather the presentation of the first draft to Congress.
XEegD TIL of an Eating Disorder first coined in 1996 called Orthorexia Nervosa (that is not in the officiall not in theDSM-V) where sufferers of this ED have an unhealthy obsession and fixation on food quality, health and purity that is rooted in food and eating restriction.