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TIL grizzly bears and polar bears can interbreed. There have been 8 such instances documented, all tracing back to the same female polar bear

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yVd5X TIL grade schools in Japan don't have janitors, and the students clean the school
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nnwY TIL Paul McCartney earns $400,000 a year off his Christmas song, which is widely regarded as the worst song he ever recorded.
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WkGM9 TIL Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin through his hobby of microbial art. Leaving a Petri dish painting of bacteria unattended for two weeks it was being killed by Penicillium fungus. Thus the antibiotic properties were studied leading to Penicillin.