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TIL bears at Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in MT have jobs: try to open coolers/dumpsters/containers of treats. If bears can't make more than a tiny hole, the item is certified bear-proof. The GWDC is the only place where products can earn a certificate from the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee.

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dDZ48 TIL that men's & women's buttoned shirts have buttons on opposite sides.
loEaA TIL in 2009 US-Australian astronomers discovered the least windiest place on earth. Ridge A on the Antarctic Plateau is so calm that "the sky there is so much darker and drier, it means that a modestly-sized telescope there would be as powerful as the largest telescopes anywhere else on earth."
oBYlA TIL the tribes forced to walk the Trail of Tears took 4,000 black African slaves with them.
M7mmK TIL about Dock Ellis, a former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher who apparently pitched a no hitter while high on LSD
LQr0Z TIL Patrick Swayze’s Vietnam draft lottery number of 141 was called in 1970, but he quite probably avoided the draft due to a career ending knee injury he received while playing high school football.