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TIL that Black Bears eat pine needles and hair to get stuck in their system on purpose. It forms up to a 1 foot long anal plug that holds the food in them all winter, then they crap it out in the Spring.

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lkP1 TIL Ted Bundy was used like Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in Silence of the Lambs and was asked for help in catching the Green River Killer (Gary Ridgway), another Serial Killer active in Washington State. Bundy predicted Ridgway’s actions.
M7YnW TIL of the Wilkes land crater - a Gravitational anomaly buried under the Antarctic Ice Sheet which is believed to be an impact crater.The Wilkes crater is THREE times the size of the Chicxulub crater that wis believed too be responsible for the K-Pg mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs
0wldL TIL there is a course from MIT called the “Missing Semester" that goes through the Shell, Vim, Git, data wrangling, etc — all the stuff that CS students are just ‘supposed to know’ but aren’t usually formally taught in a classroom
4XEJw TIL the acceptance rate of Harvard (5.6%) is twice that of Walmart jobs (2.6%)
4kNna TIL that the shortest war in history was in 1896 between Britain and Zanzibar. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.