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TIL that Churchill, Manitoba has a prison that holds Polar bears. The facility has a capacity for 28 inmates and has held over 2000 mighty white bears over the years. And no, its not as cruel as it sounds.

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x6vb5 TIL: The Oregon Bottle Bill (House Bill 1036) in 1972 set bottle return deposits at $0.05, when the average cost of a bottle was $0.10. This return fee hasn't increased since it's implementation. Which means deposit fees have gone down from 50% the initial cost, to 2.5% of the cost of the product.
VRM8 TIL Killer bees were created in an attempt to breed tamer and more manageable bees, but instead the offspring became more aggressive and highly defensive.
m1YEo TIL the Green Bay Packers are owned by a publicly held non-profit, the only NFL team of which this is the case
ANNog TIL of a type of ant called a "gamergate". It is a worker ant that can lay eggs and reproduce (unlike typical worker ants which are sterile), and some species of ants have completely replaced queens with gamergates.
xVYvb TIL, there is an Irish Sportswear Company, O'Neills, that is allowed to use the same 3 stripe design as Adidas for products on sale on the island of Ireland. In 1983, Adidas took O’Neills to court for copyright infringement but lost. O'Neills was founded in 1918 with Adidas not founded until 1949.