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TIL: In Churchill, Manitoba residents leave car doors open so passing people can jump in the presence of a polar bear.

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Wk9Dd TIL that the Library of Alexandria was never burned down or destroyed; instead it slowly deteriorated due to the purging of intellectuals from Alexandria as well as a lack of funding and support.
d85w9 TIL about "Findians". They're mix between Finns and Native Americans and they live In the Great Lakes region. Their culture is mixture between Finnish culture and Ojibwa culture.
VGPp TIL that 82% of Americans want warning labels on GMO foods. The same study revealed that 80% of Americans want warning labels on foods that contain DNA. [pdf warning]
GApgJ TIL About Operation Underworld — when the US Government and the Mafia Collaborated to stop Nazis
pY4bQ TIL about an operation where the Nazi gov't plotted to airdrop the UK with forged banknotes and collapse the British economy. They had successfully introduced forged banknotes into Britain earlier, but this operation failed, and many of the notes were sunk in 2 Austrian lakes.