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TIL in 1985, a black bear in the mountains of Georgia became infamous for consuming a huge quantity of cocaine. A drug smuggler dropped 88lb out of a plane ($15 million worth). Later, the bear was discovered dead near the duffel bag after an overdose and is now taxidermed and on display in Kentucky

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OoZKg TIL that during WW2, nazi Croatia had a concentration camp specifically designed for children. Out of 6,693 children that were forcefully taken there from Serbian, Jewish and Roma parents, 1,152 died in the camp.
N7o4b TIL Lucille Ball was so frightened of birds in the house that she refused to stay in hotels that had pictures of birds and tore down expensive Japanese wallpaper in her house that had birds in its design. Her fear of birds dates to when her father died shortly after a bird flew into the family home.
awGxN TIL In the midst of the French Revolution in the 1790s, the French government adopted French Revolutionary Time, which divided the day into 10 hours, with 100 minutes in an hour and 100 seconds in a minute; it lasted all but 17 months.
WklX4 TIL: Ariana Grande had the words 'small charcoal grill' tattooed on her hand in Japanese instead of her song 7 Rings due to missing characters.
Oddg TIL that Thomas Paine, one of America’s Founding Fathers, said all religions were human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind … only 6 people attended his funeral.