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TIL The US National Park Service put out a set of guidelines to avoid being attacked by a bear, such as moving sideways away from the bear and vocalizing to identify yourself as a human. They also advised: “Do NOT push down a slower friend (even if you think the friendship has run its course)."

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wGKP TIL Mao murdered 76,692,000 Chinese. This exceeds the 61,911,000 murdered by the Soviet Union 1917-1987, with Hitler far behind at 20,946,000 wiped out 1933-1945.
wLEoM TIL Rastafarians believed Haille Selassie, then king of Ethiopia to be the second coming of Jesus. Selassie refuted this and publicly denied his immorality. Rastafarians took this as proof he was in fact Jesus. Selassie's subsequent death in 1975 resulted in a crisis of faith for many Rastafarians.
9dWm TIL the U.S. Navy has only one ship held captive by another nation. N. Korea took the USS Pueblo in 1968 and uses it as a tourist attraction. The U.S. still lists it as actively commissioned.
Wkb19 TILlondon based innovative start-up called Skipping Rocks Lab, a group of researchers and business developers whose aim is to make product packaging obsolete “Ooho”- A sustainable water bottle you can eat and drink declares war on plastic bottles
Wk9r9 TIL that an original copy of the Declaration of Independence was bought at a Tennessee thrift store for just $2.48 along with a candelabra and a set of salt and pepper shakers. It was then sold to a Utah firm for $477,650, nearly 200,000 times the original price.