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TIL A polar bear swam continuously for 687 km (426 miles) straight in search of sea ice.

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YVJ7 TIL: Georgia lawmaker Doug Teper proposed using a guillotine for state execution so that death-row inmates could serve as organ donors
6wmX TIL “Snozzberry” was coined by Roald Dahl as a slang term for a penis. So in Willy Wonka, the kids are licking wallpaper that tastes like dicks.
6EvOQ TIL A slave, Nearest Green, taught Jack Daniels how to make whiskey and was is now credited as the first master distiller
yVvlv TIL that many scenes in the movie My Left Foot (a story about a man who could control only his left foot) were filmed through a mirror, because Daniel Daniel-Lewis could only use his right foot to perform the actions in the film.
JYeL4 TIL that a week before the Rosa Parks incident, segregation on interstate buses was struck down after a black Woman Army Corps Private refused to give up her seat to a white Marine.