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TIL that polar bears often hunt walruses by simply charging at a group of them and eating the ones that were crushed or wounded in the mass panic to escape. Direct attacks are rare.

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wRv6 TIL of Julie D’Aubigny who was a 17th century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who fought and won at least ten life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest opera stage in the world and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.
gKW8 TIL Australian serial killer Ivan Milat lost 25kg from a failed hunger strike in prison when he was denied a PlayStation
VBpwQ TIL that a Roman envoy stopped the Seleucid invasion of Egypt by drawing a circle around the invading Seleucid king and daring him to literally cross the line.
5DLp TIL Steve Job’s Cancer was very treatable, But he wanted to fight it naturally and it killed him…
e7VE TIL that the state treasury of zimbabwe is only 217$.