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TIL that the Singer and founder of the band Bad Religion has a Ph.D in zoology and lectured courses at UCLA.

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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.
6gwW TIL That 70’s Show takes place between the year 1976 and 1979, but Christmas happens 5 times in the series.
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