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TIL that polar bears and grizzly bears can have babies and they are called pizzly bears!

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vPYJK TIL that Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys, famous for the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, was established to resist New York's attempts to reclaim their land. Allen and his settlers purchased NY-controlled land from New Hampshire. NY branded the settlers outlaws, who then trained to fight back.
0kpv TIL that MLK Jr.’s family conducted a civil case to consider the existence of an assassination conspiracy involving the Memphis police as well as federal agencies. They won.
Eg98V TIL that the oldest known impacted wisdom tooth belonged to a European woman who lived between 13,000 and 11,000 BCE. Molar impaction was a rare condition prior to the modern era: it became ten times more common after the introduction of soft, processed foods.
jKME TIL That Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day was stuck for at least 30 or 40 years
OoAx4 TIL that our modern Latin alphabet is ultimately descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs (as are basically all modern writing systems not derived from Chinese characters)