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TIL it is illegal to lock your car doors in Churchill, Manitoba. Residents are greatly outnumbered by Polar Bears and may need to use an unlocked car as a temporary shelter if they come under attack.

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7JRO TIL that last year astronauts in the International Space Station found plankton OUTSIDE one of its windows. They have no explanation for it.
696gJ TIL that Marlon Brando's final film appearance, recorded only a few weeks before his death, was as the voice of an old lady named Mrs. Sour in an animated film called Big Bug Man. The film was intended to come out in 2006, but was delayed until 2008 and then never released.
R50Aj TIL in 1962 researchers from the University of Oklahoma injected 297 mg of LSD, which is nearly three thousand times the human recreational dose, into "Tusko", an Indian elephant at the Oklahoma City Zoo. Within five minutes he collapsed and died one hour and forty minutes later.
rR5Ee TIL that during prohibition, the US government forced companies to add more chrmicals to industrial-grade alcohol to stop people from stealing it and distilling it. It didn't really work. In the end, about 10,000 people died because of this.
VMD80 TIL a 90s "Watchmen" movie almost happened where Sam Hamm (Batman) wrote, Joel Silver (Matrix) produced, Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) directed, Arnold Schwarzenegger played Dr. Manhattan, and David Bowie was Rorschach. And the ending would've had Manhattan use his powers to prevent his own creation.