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I’ve always been a sucker for random facts that make me sound smarter than I actually am. You know the type. Those little nuggets of info you casually drop at a dinner party, like, “Oh yeah, did you know sea otters hold hands when they sleep?

The internet is full of random rabbit holes, but few are as consistently surprising and delightful as Reddit’s Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit. With over 30 million members, it’s a goldmine of bite-sized facts,

3."Most European languages have forgotten the original word for 'bear', replacing it with either a word meaning 'the brown one/Mr Brown' (as in 'Bear') or 'He who eats honey' (as in the Slavic 'Medved'). This is because the original, forgotten word for 'bear' became taboo, due to the fear of summoning a bear if its name was spoken." — Sasha Kyääti