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TIL In 2012, a man named Robert Biggs was attacked by a mountain lion while he was out hiking, then a bear saved his life by attacking the lion and driving it away.

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lo9mA TIL that turkeys can fly up to 60 miles an hour despite their 20 pound heft. They roost high up in the trees at night, but spend most of their time on the ground, causing the misconception that they are incapable of flight at all.
8aokG TIL Japan has a process to clean and check eggs for safety that allows them to be eaten raw, without getting salmonella
v4jK TIL an autistic kindergartner, his mother, and his grandmother were handcuffed at a school. The child was taken to a psych ward and the grandmother had a rib broken, all because of a 5 y/o tantrum that wasn’t handled properly by the school.
1AGO TIL a corrupt U.S. immigration official accepted 200 eggrolls in exchange for granting citizenship.
OGMBe TIL that arabs had banned the export of unroasted coffee beans so that everyone would have to continue buying it from them but an Indian saint Budan smuggled 7 seeds in his beard risking capital punishment thereby starting the coffee production in India and ending arabian monopoly on it.