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TIL 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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gr8KA TIL Fritz Haber invented a process of ammonia synthesis both to save the world from starvation and to serve the German war machine. He never saw the creation of Zyklon B from his process and its use by the Nazis to kill his relatives in the gas chambers. His wife committed committed suicide.
gMrV9 TIL parents in China can sue their children if they do not visit often enough
DQBkY TIL that if America’s coastal watershed counties were considered an individual country, they would rank number three in GDP globally, behind the U.S. as a whole and China. [economic value of living near water]
AlJx TIL During WWII when Hitler visited Paris, the French cut the lift cables on the Eiffel Tower so that Hitler would have to climb the steps if he wanted to visit the summit. Hitler never went on the Eiffel Tower and it has been said that Hitler conquered France, but never conquered the Eiffel Tower.
7kXx TIL gold on Earth came from colliding neutron stars