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TIL about the Sankebetsu brown bear incident a series of bear attacks which took place 9-15 December 1915, at the beginning of the Taishō era, in a remote area of Hokkaido, Japan. The attacks ended when the hungry bear, so smart that it started to trick people, was shot dead.
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TIL crinoid fossils (a relative of starfish) were found in the rock of the summit pyramid of Everest in 1924, the first proof the mountaintop is marine limestone formed on the ocean bed.
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TIL criminal conversation is an old civil wrong for suing a person who had sexual intercourse with your spouse. Although abolished across the British Isles and 30+ U.S. states, it is still active in a few like North Carolina.
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TIL: "Pretty Boy" Floyd, one of America's most notorious bank robbers, was known for destroying mortgage papers during bank heists, so freeing hundreds of individuals from property debt.
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TIL that both indica and sativa are scientific terms used In classifying rice. With oryza sativa being the plants name and variance indica meaning it comes from India.
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TIL the heiress to the Brach’s candy fortune disappeared in 1977 (and was presumably murdered) because she threatened to expose the “Horse Murders Scandal,” in which expensive show horses were killed to collect insurance money
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TIL Strom Thurmond was the first person to be elected senator as a write-in candidate where the other candidate had ballot access.
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