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TIL that there are more brown bears (around four times) on the Japanese island of Hokkaido than in all of the contiguous United States

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oBYmr TIL that a heavily-promoted 1979 American sitcom about black congressman did not air due to opposition from the Black Congressional Caucus, who feared that airing "Mr. Dugan" would be "disastrous, showing a (black) congressman who was a silly, incompetent man ruled by his staff"
N7QvE TIL in Japan ~%99 of people are cremated. After cremation, the family uses chopsticks to transfer the bones out of the ash and into an urn. This is the ONLY time is acceptable to pass anything from chopsticks to chopsticks. Doing such outside of a funeral can remind bystanders of a recent funeral.
bo0E TIL that the data gathered from Nazi freezing experiments on people, is the definitive data on how the body reacts to freezing temperatures.
Bg4pW TIL Every winter, Chris Butler, writer and member of The Waitresses, donates to a children's library in the name of the first person who tells him they've heard "Christmas Wrapping" on the radio.
JyKk TIL In 1977 Syracuse University communications students high jacked a tv station. They aired the brand new feature film ‘Rocky’ and some classic porn movies to the general public on channel 7. This went on for 2 days and during that time the FCC received ZERO complaints.