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TIL bears in china are caged as cubs and never released, with many kept caged for up to 30 years in a practice called "bile farming"

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M7Jla TIL of wind catchers, an architectural technology dating back to 500BC Iran to passively cool buildings. Air is drawn in and out of these tall spire like structures through large slotted openings at the top. A stream of water underneath provides evaporatively cooled air which rises through the space
rOvd TIL that an Air Canada flight ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet, and was safely landed at an non-operational airfield in Gimli.
5V7lP TIL: That the term 'hamstring' came about as it was common to use the long tendons of these muscles to tie up hams or pork thighs for curing
0dvXA TIL the original cast album for the musical Hamilton became the first Broadway cast recording ever to be certified diamond (10 million units sold) by the RIAA in June 2023. All 46 tracks on the double-album are also certified as singles (6-double platinum, 22-platinum, 18-gold).
nZnB TIL that three Klansmen, including an FBI informant, forced a black man to jump to his death from a bridge 150 feet into a river. An Alabama judge dropped the case because “Merely forcing a person to jump from a bridge does not naturally and probably lead to the death of such a person.”