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TIL Grizzly bears have a better sense of smell than a hound dog and can detect food from miles away.

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98KX TIL that Tupac Shakur was a member of the Young Communist League USA, and that the Maryland chapter - based in Baltimore, where he spent his high school years - is named after him.
M7ZOm TIL of "auto-brewery syndrome", where gut bacteria produce enough alcohol to get you drunk even from non-alcoholic foods/drinks.
OGGLg TIL in 2010 the US Air Force built a supercomputer out of 1760 PS3s. It was the 35th most powerful supercomputer in the world at the time and used 10% of the energy of comparable systems.
X0MX8 TIL that "pair of pants" is a fixed term of mathematics that describes a certain type of surface with three holes
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