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TIL a bite from a grizzly bear can crush a bowling ball

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wy1E TIL Thomas Edison rejected the idea of projected motion pictures, because he wanted to keep selling films in dedicated machines for a single person to view.
Brjvr TIL that when Glacier National Park, Montana, was named the around 80 glaciers in the park made the name an obvious choice. Today there are fewer than 30 glaciers left. With the number getting smaller and smaller.
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