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TIL in response to criticism of Mazda naming their SUV after the Navajo, the company donated a Mazda Navajo model to the tribe

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y17e TIL a mummified dinosaur was found in Alberta in 2011
1YyD TIL that there’s a cult in the small island nation of Vanuatu, called that Prince Phillip Movement, that believes that Prince Phillip is a divine being. He once sent a signed picture of himself to them and they sent him a pig killing club.
1vn7 TIL a 120-meter-deep, 17th-Century salt mine in Romania has been converted to the world’s largest salt mining museum and amusement park, complete with a Ferris wheel, an amphitheater, light shows on the rock walls and boat rides on a subterranean lake.
kJex7 TIL health professionals are more likely than the public at large to buy generic painkillers, because they realize that they’re just as effective as name brands
LQyGd TIL bears don't actually hibernate. Most of a bear’s bodily functions slow during its denning cycle in the winter, but true hibernation requires a significant drop in body temperature. A bear’s only dips by a few degrees. Also, the idea that they sleep all winter long is totally wrong.