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TIL that all polar bears are Irish because they are all descendants of Irish brown bears that lived in the last ice age.

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p8QEQ TIL MHV and FIPV, both belonging to the family of Coronaviruses, have been reverse engineerable since 2003. The key feature of the method is an interspecies chimeric MHV that serves as the recipient.
xGy0 TIL that there is a theory by reputable physicists that the universe is made up of one electron that is moving forward and backward in time.
4Xwpo TIL that for John Wick: Parabellum (2019) five dogs played Halle Berry's two sidekicks and she did the regular training herself so that on-set, the dogs actually followed her and no one had to give commands from off-camera
ZkV4 TIL that in 1999, it took Google 1 MONTH to crawl and build an index of about 50 million pages. On the contrary, the same task was accomplished in less than 1 MINUTE a just over a decade after!
gr7J4 TIL about Problembär or problem bear in Bavaria, Germany a single bear called Bruno. Shot dead in 2006 because of his preference for sheep and chickens, he was the first bear on Bavarian Soil in 170 years. Italy later declared Bruno to be Italian state property and demanded his return.