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TIL that the lightsaber Samuel L Jackson used in the Star Wars movies had the words “bad motherfucker” engraved into it.

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mxa5v TIL even though they seem stationary sea anemone can swim to get away from predators and do so at a surprising pace
R58j9 TIL about Troy Hurtubise, a Canadian man who built multiple suits of armor to study grizzly bears up close in nature. He'd test these by having his friends hit him with 2x4s or drive trucks into him
Z854 TIL that in 1450 a large pack of wolves killed 40 people in the middle of Paris
epnr4 TIL the first unsuccessful state fair in the country was in Ann Arbor, MI in 1839
ADArw TIL in 2016, scientists discovered an Arctic Tern flew 59,650 miles in the course of a year, from an island off the coast of England to Antarctica, and then back again. It was the longest migration ever recorded—the equivalent of flying around the circumference of the Earth twice, plus 10,000 miles.