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TIL eight grizzly bear/polar bear hybrids have been confirmed in the wild, all descending from the same female polar bear.

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OoEbg TIL Japanese subways have custom jingles and play bird noises to calm people down and help the blind know where they are
0A5R TIL that the noise pollution level in India is so high, that the Indian consumer requires electronic devices 10x louder than those sold in Europe and the US.
jN5yM TIL that Right Whales got their name from the fact that they conveniently float after being killed, and were thus know to whalers as the "right whale" to kill.
b6va4 TIL about the Camondo Stairs in Istanbul, Turkey which were built by Abraham Salomon Camondo in the 1870s. The stairway was constructed as a shortcut for his children to go to school and its hexagonal shape was designed to prevent his children from falling further down the steps in case they fell.
j6g1X TIL about the UK’s 1833 Slavery Abolition Act: around 46,000 former slave owners were compensated by the government for lost “property” — a huge payout equivalent to billions today, making it one of Britain’s largest-ever state debts. No compensation was given to enslaved people themselves.