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TIL Polar Bears have black skin.

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1ZEW TIL Burger King has a ‘BK Crown Gold Card’ which it gives out to celebrities. It is good for a lifetime of free food at any Burger King location.
x68Ao TIL John Tyler and his second wife (Julia Gardiner) had a Presidential male canary named Johnny Ty who died of a heart attack after they tried to breed it with another male canary
YAAv TIL many ethnic Koreans in Japan send their kids to North Korean-funded schools that teach allegiance to NK, despite their families having lived in Japan for generations. The Japanese government tolerates the schools’ existence. In past decades many ethnic Koreans emigrated to NK, unable to return.
4kmMX TIL Charles Osborne, born in Iowa in 1894, led a quiet life until 1922 when he suffered an accident. This incident triggered constant hiccups that persisted for 68 years, making Osborne a famous figure and landing him in the Guinness Book of World Records.
9jd6 TIL that the face on almost every cpr doll in existence is modeled after an unidentified woman who’s dead body was found in the seine river in france during the late 1880s.