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TIL Baylor University has 2 live black bears that live on campus and used to go to football games. The school stopped taking them there only after the USDA banned them from doing so.

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6EPaJ TIL crows in urban Japan and the United States have innovated a technique to crack hard-shelled nuts by dropping them onto crosswalks and letting them be run over and cracked by cars. Then they retrieve the cracked nuts when the cars are stopped at the red light.
OomR4 TIL: Frank Sinatra recorded a unique version of “Lady is a Tramp” for Ringo Starr’s wife, which the Beatle presented to her for her birthday. It includes the line “She married Ringo, And she could have had Paul, That’s why the lady is a champ”
R7PbQ TIL A small percentage of the static you see on "dead" tv stations is left over radiation from the Big Bang. You're seeing residual effects of the Universe's creation.
OooxX TIL of the Norwegian immigrant and WWII vet Andrew Haines who requested and was granted a Viking funeral by the U.S. Coast Guard.
Brroe TIL that EA tried to buy Valve for $1 billion