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TIL that Smokey the Bear was in fact a REAL bear.

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N7Ynb TIL Mary Ellen Pleasant, a black woman, pretended to be white, listen to white men of finace's gossip, using the knowledge to earn a $30 million fortune. After the civil war, she let everybody know she was black.
4wrX TIL that today in Confederate Park, Fort Mill SC, there is a monument to “faithful slaves” that fought for the “principles of our Confederate States of America.”
YaJv TIL that under “mutual combat laws,” two people can tussle without legal intervention as long as they both verbally agree to fight before punches are thrown.
JLG1 TIL wild bananas are full of seeds and the ones we eat have been specially bred over the years to be seedless
grXoX TIL that there is a German man named Marc Wubbenhorst who must drink 20 liters of water every day in order to not die from dehydration. He suffers an extreme case of diabetes insipidus.