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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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E9lX TIL that the corpse of the original singer from Alice in Chains is believed to have sat in front of a flickering tv set for 2 weeks before it was found.
467R TIL that Tim Russ, Tuvok from “Star Trek: Voyager”, was also the “We aint found shit!” trooper from “Spaceballs”
R5Rkj TIL Henry Rollins has a 1tb harddrive full of diverse music that he brings everywhere to turn kids onto new types of music
LkRBr TIL of the Bulwer-Lyton fiction contest, in which entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels"
LkkDQ TIL of Leo Major, a French Canadian soldier, one of three Commonwealth soldiers to receive the Distinguished Conduct Medal twice in two separate wars - the first for single-handedly liberating the City of Zwolle in WWII; the second for defending Hill 355 with 18 men against 14 000 Chinese in Korea.