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Thursday, Oct 6, 2022

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💬 Quoted…​​ "Presenting your Titans of Tub and hulking, hefty heroes!"

Fat Bear Week 2022 officially began yesterday.

  • In this March Madness-style tournament, bears from the Katmai National Park & Preserve in Alaska are matched against each other, with online visitors voting to determine who's the chunkiest of them all. Last year's winner, 480 Otis, was estimated to weigh north of 1,000 pounds.

P.S. We’re holding a little animal-focused competition of our own next week.

💒📈 Stat of the Day: The rates of people having their first marriages in midlife (ages 40–59) increased 74% for women and 45% for men from 1990 to 2019, per a recent peer-reviewed study.

🤯 Did You Know?... The iconic sign in Hollywood, CA, originally read "Hollywoodland." It was built in 1923 to promote a real-estate development, but in 1945 the City of Los Angeles acquired the land it sat on. Four years later, the sign was shortened to “Hollywood.”

📖 Worth a Read: How to Get Comfortable With Uncertainty and Change → (Greater Good Magazine)

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