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TIL Canada has a polar bear jail for disorderly polar bears

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WkMEB TIL During the US invasion of Afghanistan, a CIA paramilitary team was asked by a young man for help in rescuing his sister, whom a senior Taliban official had taken as his wife. They gave him a tracking device to pass along to her. As a result, the team captured the Taliban and rescued the sister.
gMbaA TIL that the @ symbol has been in use since the 1500s as an accounting abbreviation for "at the rate of". As in “12 widgets @ $1.” (The total would be $12, $1 each).
GY4BG TIL the male penis bone is non-skeletal, which means the bone basically floats in the penis.
XyWR TIL that if you were born in the US in the 60s or later, the government already has your DNA in a database through the mandatory newborn screening program.
5YjD8 TIL that gum disease can be associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and that Alzheimer’s is associated with markers from oral bacterium P. gingivalis