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TIL a bruin bear was found on a ledge of a California bridge. Volunteers strung a net under the bear; officials shot it with a tranquilizer dart, nudged it with a pole onto the net, lowered it to the ground & steered it into the wild. The bridge where the bear was found is called "Rainbow Bridge."

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8apwa TIL Archduke Franz Ferdinand's marriage was morganatic, and so his wife could only be honored as royalty during military inspections, which he did many of out of love for his wife. He and his wife were eventually assassinated while making a military inspection, which started WWW1 (and led to WW2).
6Eg1Z TIL that the present day events of The Incredibles are set in the 1960s
W7YV4 TIL Zebras have poor eyesight and ostriches have poor hearing, which led them to form a symbiotic relationship through communicating and warning each other of danger.
V0gQ TIL that in May of 2012, Florida Judge James Daniel denied Marissa Alexander protection under Stand Your Ground Laws and sentenced her to 20-years in prison for firing warning shots at her allegedly abusive husband, against whom she had already taken out a protective order.
wLyoo TIL there was a petition to rename and Austrian village named Fucking. Tarsdorf municipality's mayor decided to keep the name as it had existed for 800 years and further stated that "[e]veryone here knows what it means in English, but for us Fucking is Fucking—and it's going to stay Fucking."