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TIL the origin of the word "bear" is "brown one". It's believed that there was a taboo around saying its name directly for fear of accidentally summoning one.

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Ggej TIL The guy who is the voice of Mario is also the voice of Paarthurnax in Skyrim.
9elr TIL The movies “Goodfellas” and “My Blue Heaven” are based on the same real-life gangster: Henry Hill.
8QwK TIL that Jonathan Lee Riches got the Guinness world record for having filed the highest number of lawsuits in the world. When he heard of this, he sued the Guinness Book of World Records
5YnBp TIL that many WW1 soldiers on the Western front spontaneously declared truces for Christmas 1914. On both sides, they left their trenches to bury their dead, hold church services, and trade cigars and other small goods in no man’s land.
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