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

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gv5b TIL slow music playing in a restaurant makes perception of time slow by about 13%, and also makes customers buy up to 40% more drinks than normal
88la TIL that J.K. Rowling contemplated suicide which was how the Dementors were put in the Harry Potter Series.
6EjjY TIL the explosion that led to the Chernobyl nuclear accident was chemical, driven by gases and steam generated by the core runaway, not by nuclear reactions. No commercial nuclear reactor contains a high enough concentration of U-235 or plutonium to cause a nuclear explosion.
v9gj TIL A crowd funding campaign raised over £20,000 to replace all adverts in a London Underground station with pictures of cats.
meYM TIL: Four years after it was released, an Arizona DJ played UB40’s “Red Red Wine” as part of a feature on songs that should have been hits. Listeners started requesting it and within weeks it was the national #1 single