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TIL Bears can be chased off by dogs, as they associate them with wolves, or humans. Where there's one wolf, there's usually a pack waiting. (Or some human with a gun/phone with animal control)

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v1oJr TIL The longest recorded human pregnancy lasted over 12 months; and resulted in the live birth of a healthy child.
neyNr TIL that the Kremlin has a division of trained hawks that defend the building from crows. At first, keepers tried to use pre-recorded shrieks, but crows got used to them, so falcons-later hawks, were used. They are easier and cheaper to train. There’s also an eagle-owl that hunts at night.
OGM9a TIL that Ben S. Cauley, Jr. was the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed singer Otis Redding & 6 other people in 1967. Cauley took off his seat belt shortly before the crash. He managed to cling to a seat cushion for 20 minutes, until a rescue boat pulled him from the freezing lake waters.
P10ne TIL that when Jose Alfredo Jimenez, the best songwriter that Mexico has had, knew he was going to die, he wrote the song "Gracias" and sang it to his public despite suffering from cirrhosis.
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