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TIL the memorial in Normandy where WWII soldiers are buried is actually considered American soil

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E1OXw TIL there's only 8 species of bears in the world: brown bears, Asian black bears, American black bears, sun bears, sloth bears, spectacled bears, polar bears, and giant pandas.
oBl48 TIL about Anthropologist Prof Joy Hendry who has spent 45 years researching Japan
9YljM TIL a Texas sheriff was duped into buying money copying box. Irate that the box did not work, he confronted the seller, who convinced the sheriff he had been operating it incorrectly and gave him some money for the trouble. The sheriff was later arrested because the money he had been given was fake.
YpOoB TIL That Jack Black’s mother helped with the Hubble space telescope.
wLVwo TIL that after America's Vanguard TV3 rocket exploded seconds after launch, Russia offered the US aid during a UN meeting under the "Soviet program of technical assistance to backwards nations"