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TIL There is a Polar Bear jail in Canada that houses incarcerated Polar Bears that are guilty of being nuisances.

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1aY7P TIL that in the early 2000s iG, one of Brazil's largest web portals, decided to have a "Good News Day" to improve the perception of the media as bearer of bad news. The previous day, they annouced it would start on 9/11/2001. It only lasted a few hours.
EgVY0 TIL of Alexander Selkirk (1676 – 13 December 1721) who was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway (1704–1709) after being marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean.
ndxo TIL the Queen’s Guard at Buckingham Palace handle public nuisances not by ignoring them as seen in movies, but by shouting and pointing their loaded rifles at them.
wEmM TIL on the night Ted Bundy was executed, an estimated 2,000 celebrants sang, danced, and set off fireworks in a pasture across the street from the prison, then cheered loudly as the white hearse carrying his body left the facility.
e0Vab TIL that 75% of Earth's population is lactose intolerant. It is actually so common that lactose intolerance is now considered the normal baseline, with people who are not being referred to as 'lactose persistent'