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TIL there is a live stream with which you can watch bears fish for salmon in Alaska (and a bunch of other stuff)

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Eg8Do TIL about Flying Primate Theory. Due to the unique neurological pathways leading from the eyes to the brain, some scientists believe that flying fox bats are more closely related to primates
8awjX TIL in the 1910s, there was a US baseball team made up of death-row prisoners, whose executions were delayed so long as they kept winning.
awLo0 TIL: Over the past two centuries, Singapore’s land area has expanded by a 25% – from 58,150 to 71,910 hectares (or 578 to 719 sq km).1 This gradual increase in land surface is not because of tectonic movements but rather the miracle of a man-made engineering feat known as land reclamation.
eJNk TIL In Kurt Cobain’s suicide note, he quoted a Neil Young song saying “It’s better to burn out than fade away”. Neil Young said that “it fucked with me” and he had actually been trying to get in touch with Cobain around when his suicide happened, in order to offer encouragement.
oBEJK TIL that from 1946 to 1948, a group of doctors from the United States Public Health Service intentionally infected 1,308 people in Guatemala, including children as young as 10, with various STDs. 83 people died, but the experiments were kept secret until papers describing them were found in 2005.