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TIL that YouTube creators Josh Pieters and Archie Manners trucked Carole Baskin into giving them her first interview since Tiger King.

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8b14 TIL: Henry III received a polar bear as a gift from King Haakon of Norway in 1252. The bear lived at the Tower of London and was given a long leash so it could swim in the river Thames and catch fish.
GALvE TIL in 2018 three illegally installed vending machines (that required an 8-inch hole to be dug & filled with concrete) were discovered in Long Island to be selling "crack pipes" disguised as pens for $2 each. The machines were originally tampon dispensers that had been ripped out of bathrooms.
Qa1E TIL that it is mathematically possible to turn a sphere inside out without creating any creases. The proof for this was developed by Bernard Morin; a blind mathematician.
kOGmm TIL before Cliven Bundy went to prison for his armed standoff against the government, he was partially responsible for keeping alive a strain of ancient crookneck watermelon who's seeds were found hidden in a cave in Arizona in the 1920s.
j6Nrv TIL that while filming The Jazz Singer (1980), Neil Diamond, who was new to acting, was having trouble playing a scene where his character was supposed to be angry, so he asked his band to play a Barry Manilow song to make him angry for real.