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TIL that a man, Chase Dellwo, survived a Grizzly bear attack by shoving his arm down the bears throat. While being attacked in Great Falls Montana, Dellwo remembered an article his grandmother gave him about bears having bad gag reflexes. He shoved his arm down the Grizzlys throat and it retreated.

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