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TIL there are only eight species of bear in the world.

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1677O TIL that New Hampshire's AA minor league baseball team was initially going to be called the New Hampshire Primaries and have a logo of a donkey and an elephant side by side, but local fans disliked it so much that the team held a name contest and instead became the New Hampshire Fisher Cats
oB1Y7 TIL Canada once minted a $1 million dollar coin, which was promptly stolen and never found.
XO6Q TIL that a man and nine of his friends played a game of tag for 23 years. The game had no geographic limits, and only went live in the month of February, meaning that if you were tagged last, you were “It” for a year.
5ZQB TIL that Galveston, Texas was ruled by French pirates between 1816 and 1821
mxJ7Y TIL Great White Sharks will flee their hunting grounds and won’t return for up to a year when killer whales pass by