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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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v1NZx TIL the Mount Washington Cog Railway was the first mountain climbing railway in the world.
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D10Kp TIL Amur (Siberian) tigers regularly prey on young bears and sub-adult brown bears. Reports of preying on fully grown small female adult Ussuri brown bears by a big male tiger are common as well. Certain tigers have been reported to imitate the calls of Asian black bears to attract them.
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