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TIL A wolverine once killed a polar bear in a zoo by latching onto its throat and suffocating it to death

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1aJj7 TIL the electricity needed to power Times Square could power 161,000 average American homes or the entire country of Turks and Caicos
PnV TIL Truth serum is real and considered torture
nWogB TIL: Autism can be detected with a 92% certainty just by looking at how fast the pupils dilate (Pupillary Light Reflex in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders)
4XA7w TIL transgender/LGBT rights in Thailand are extremely advanced. Due to Thailand being 94% buddhist, which believes that you only occupy a body in this life, so your spirit is different. So if you're born a man but feel a woman, there's more societal acceptance that the body is wrong not the mind.
QNZke TIL of Hannie Schaft, a Dutch resistance fighter known as "the girl with the red hair" during WWII. She committed assassinations and sabotage but refused to kidnap a Nazi official's children. During her execution, she was shot and injured, challenging her killers by saying, "I shoot better."