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TIL Canada has a polar bear jail for disorderly polar bears

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aw08Z TIL Steven Russell escaped from prison by using laxatives to fake the symptoms of AIDS. He then called the prison, posing as a doctor, asking for prisoners interested in an experimental treatment, and volunteered. Once out of Texas, he sent a death certificate to the prison stating he had died.
5YmJ9 TIL that the Neptunes Cup sponge grew so big that they were commonly harvested to be used as baths for infants. Overharvesting for this use contributed largely to their extinction until they were rediscovered in 2010.
pomG TIL: Chuck Howley is the only player ever to win the Super Bowl MVP Award, while playing on the losing team.
X0oj TIL Fahrenheit remains the official scale of the United States, Cayman Islands and Belize. That’s just 3 of 196 countries in the world.
oegY TIL When Miles Davis bought a Ferrari, his lawyer called the local police department to tell them its color, so that Davis would not have to deal with the misconception that as a black man, he had stolen the car.