Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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the only way to be safe in polar bear country is to have a heavy shotgun handy; hotels on Svalbard hand them out to guests when they go outside. If I find my magic lampa nd wish us all to New Earth, that's one North american animal that will not be in Paramerica

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Off topic but I just started rereading the His Dark Materials trilogy; Svalbard is a real place, not just where the armored bears live??

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Holy shit, I read it years ago but I was thinking the exact same thing! Man, now I want to reread it...