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TIL that it took Tim Treadwell over 6 minutes to die during the bear attack that ended his life.

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YpQEA TIL Giraffe can run extremely fast - at a gallop they reach a speed of up to 60 km/h, which ranks them among the fastest animals in the savanna, right after the representatives of the cat family.
8al0Z TIL A NCAA football coach was fired after a co-worker found pornographic videos of children on his cell phone. He fought the charges vigorously after being charged with 2 felonies. He was finally reinstated after 18 months after it was revealed it was his kids taking a bath.
5VQ6p TIL in 1999, British geneticist John Stephen Jones FRS revealed that approx.11 million of the (then) UK population of 58.7 million had a recent Black ancestor they weren't aware of. This was due to the 18th Century Black populations across the country that had been 'absorbed' into the masses...
1a8pW TIL that the #1 movie on IMDb for years was the Godfather, but fans of the Dark Knight started giving it low ratings in an effort to make TDK the #1 movie. TDK didn't stay on top, but the Godfather was given just enough low ratings to make it fall to the #2 spot, behind the Shawshank Redemption
GAm75 TIL In 2015, a Washington Post reporter wrote an article calling Red Lake County, Minnesota "the absolute worst place to live in America". He then visited the county and not only did he change his opinion. But 6 months later he and his family moved to Red Lake County.