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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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pepQ TIL that in 1981 Ozzy Osbourne went to a meeting with the head of CBS Europe in Germany so intoxicated that he performed a Nazi goose-step up and down the table before dipping his testicles in and then urinating in the executive’s glass of wine.
Vw4D TIL there was a town that was underwater for 25 years and resurfaced in 2009
4ylb TIL… When Lord Kelvin claimed the Earth was not old enough to support Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, it was Darwin’s son, George Darwin, who helped prove his calculation invalid due to radiation from the earth’s core.
0wRKj TIL during WWII Soviet scientists defended the world’s largest seed vault through a 900-day siege. Many of the scientists starved amid the crops and fruit, refusing to jeopardize ‘the future of Russia’ to save themselves.
JY1n8 It’s never happened, and NASA feels confident that it never will. For one thing, astronauts generally don’t float free. Outside the ISS, they’re always attached to the spacecraft with a braided steel tether, which has a tensile strength of 1,100 pounds. If it’s a two-person spacewalk, oftentimes the astronauts are also hooked to each other.