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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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d8LRr TIL Charles VIII, the King of France was killed after hitting his head on a doorframe
P1keV TIL that the Suez Canal closed for eight years from 1967-1975, costing billions in trade
JYvo8 TIL that Marmite cannot be marketed/sold in the EU member state of Denmark because the licence required to market certain fortified foods in the country has not been applied for yet
naL7 TIL Daylight Savings Time was originally started to conserve energy, but has since become obsolete.
EWOp TIL Congress tried to pass a “American Hippo bill” in 1910 to authorize the importation and release of hippopotamus into Louisiana to help solve the American meat crisis, described as “lake cow bacon”