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TIL the National Park Service has officially advised against sacrificing slower friends in a bear attack, ‘even if the friendship has run its course’

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9rbB TIL The 13,000 sq. miles National Radio Quiet Zone in West Virginia does not allow cell phones, cordless phones, WiFi, digital cameras, automatic door openers, or gasoline engines. Pocahontas County, pop. 8,719, is the home to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Green Bank Telescope.
9YKQG TIL on the hit TV show Happy Days, The Fonz originally wasn't allowed to wear a leather jacket. Not wanting Fonzie to be depicted as a hoodlum, executives put him in a windbreaker in the beginning.
Y70KB TIL the GEICO gecko’s name is Martin, named after The Martin Agency who created him in 1999.
QJ9Ee TIL Jackie Robinson's brother Mack won silver in the 200m at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - behind Jesse Owens
v1KVj TIL the cornea doesn't have blood vessels but instead is nourished by tears. The cornea remarkably can heal minor abrasions in under 72 hours.