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TIL Canada has a polar bear jail for disorderly polar bears

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vPYr TIL R.L. Stine, the author of the “Goosebumps” children’s books, also wrote the novelization of the film “Spaceballs”
69NNm TIL of Armand Gagné, a peasant boy who was adopted by Marie Antoinette. After her carriage almost ran over the 5-year-old, she became so delighted with his appearance that she took him with her. The boy did not want to go and wished to stay with his family but she forcibly adopted him anyway.
WkYv8 TIL humans domesticated dogs before we domesticated potatoes
wLmmJ TIL The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helped save the lives of 122 million children since 1990.
Y7JRG TIL that some parts of the Champs-Élysées were tiled with Saudi granite