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TIL of Grizzly Bear #122 of Banff National Park - he is the largest bear in the area, has eaten a couple black bears, has fathered 5 cubs, and was hit by a train and lived.

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mNoE TIL in feudal Japan, merchants were the lowest class because unlike farmers and artisans, they don’t actually produce anything
QJakp TIL in 1983, Atari buried in the New Mexico desert thousands of unsold copies of (what is commonly known as) the worst video game of all time-- E.T.
wopvW TIL of Vichy collaborator Maurice Papon, who deported 1600 Jews to Drancy camp in WW2. He also tortured Algerian insurgents and killed up to 300 protesters in Paris in 1961, disappeared a Moroccan Marxist, and was granted the Legion of Honour by Charles de Gaulle. He was not convicted until 1998.
N7G6E TIL the reason why chocolate is so comforting for us, is probably that the ratio 2g sugar to 1g fat is only naturally occuring in breastmilk.
M7Ye7 TIL about the Hand of Glory, an old European custom of taking the left hand of a person hanged for murder for use in various magical purposes.