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TIL two brown bears escaped from their enclosure at a wildlife park in England & headed straight for a staff-only food storage area. The bears then indulged in a variety of snacks including a week's worth of honey before they returned to their enclosures within an hour. Both "passed out" afterwards.

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mxgJp TIL of Market Garden, a failed British operation during the Second World War which resulted in the loss of 16,000~ troops, 377 aircraft/gliders and 88 tanks.
kO8Ne TIL Water is used in rice fields to prevent weeds. Rice doesn't actually need that much water, but since it can thrive in such conditions, whereas weeds cannot, it's a natural protection against them.
GYR7Q TIL after Robert Bork was rejected by Congress as a Supreme Court judge after a highly controversial set of confirmation hearings, "Bork" was added to the dictionary as a verb whose meaning is "To prevent a person from being appointed to public office by means of systemic vilification or defamation"
Vg58 TIL if a man is physically forced to sexually penetrate someone without consent (such as being pinned or held down, or by the use of violence) or threatened with physical harm, or when the victim was drunk, high, drugged, or passed out and unable to consent IT IS NOT RAPE.(CDC Full report page 17)
0ExR TIL in his will George Bernard Shaw provided for a competition to invent an alphabet better suited to the English language than the Roman alphabet. The resulting alphabet is called the Shavian alphabet and is supported by Unicode.