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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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QJr7p TIL: Hall of Fame Baseball pitcher Nolan Ryan was in the league long enough to strikeout 7 pairs of fathers and sons when they eventually joined the league later on his career.
lp6A TIL ‘patient zero’ of last year’s West African ebola outbreak was a Guinean child who played with bats residing in a hollow cola tree. It is unknown whether the bats were the ultimate source of the infection since either by coincidence or as a result of that public warning, the tree was burnt down.
BgKmy TIL that Theodore Roosevelt is the only United States President to have received the Medal of Honor, with it being awarded to him posthumously in 2001 after having been nominated during the Spanish American War.
mxbLx TIL use of CT scans has increased dramatically over the last two decades. An estimated 72 million scans were performed in the US in 2007 and more than 80 million a year in 2015. One study estimated that as many as 0.4% of current cancers in the United States are due to CTs performed in the past.
9wLxm TIL Justin Timberlake said of *NSYNC bandmate JC Chasez, "In my opinion, (JC) had the best voice out of all of us...Out of all the boy bands, call 'em what you will, he was the one that could out-sing all of us."