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TIL That the Romantic Era, English poet Lord Byron had a pet bear while he attended Cambridge, in protest of the schools rule on no dogs. There was no rule forbidding bears.

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pYP4A TIL in 2005, Michael Jackson planned to build a 50ft robot of himself that would "wander in the [Nevada] desert as an advertisement" for a proposed Las Vegas residency. Funding problems shelved both the robot and residency, and a Nov 2009 meeting to revisit the idea was cancelled once Jackson died
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