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TIL Polar bears give birth while in a lethargic state similar to hibernation

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j6pAQ TIL a 14-year-old girl died from drinking two Monster Energy drinks within 24 hours. The excessive caffeine made her go into cardiac arrest.
b9Gwj TIL the person who coined the derogatory term "patent troll" to criticize those who abuse patents through litigation is now a founding/managing partner of Intellectual Ventures, the "most hated company in tech" and largest of all the patent trolls.
e0wvk TIL when Tater Tots first hit store shelves in 1956, people did not buy them because they were very inexpensive and there was no perceived value. When the price was raised by stores, people began buying the product.
n1Ar TIL in their latest film ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ stop motion animation studio LAIKA used 3d printing for the Kubo character giving him 11,007 unique mouth expressions and 4,429 brow expressions, allowing for over 48 million possible facial expressions.
ddJd TIL In the past decade about 7,800 independent (Mom & Pop ) pizza restaurants closed.