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TIL The Spirit Bear survived, in part, because the Native Americans never spoke of them to fur trappers

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vP847 TIL the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, first built in 1952 and still in use today, is commonly referred to as BUFF or Big Ugly Fat Fucker/Fella
rNkZo TIL the word "Brunch" was coined in 1895 by someone writing an essay for a magazine.
eNoJ TIL Wi-Fi was developed by using technology from a failed experiment attempting to detect mini black holes.
bRb7 TIL of Witold Pilecki, a Polish officer during WWII who volunteered to go to Auschwitz to document the genocide and fought in the Warsaw Uprising only to be executed by the Soviets
a94Z TIL the precedent set in the Supreme Court case of Wickard v Filburn (which allows the government to stabilize the market by destroying excess food) was used in Gonzales v. Raich to give the federal government the power to criminalize medicinal marijuana despite state laws which may make it legal