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Fact: Did you know that doctors have identified more than 23 types of bears, not including currently extinct types of bears? Now you know.
Polar bears can grow to over 10 feet long and weigh more than 1,300 pounds. This is the equivalent of a large white car with claws. Polar bears mainly eat seals.
According to the ancient Greeks, bears are the only animals to live in the stars. The story goes that a young maiden bewitched the god Apollo with her golden voice. He pursued her, but at the last minute, she sang a plaintive song begging him to let her go. His hear torn asunder, he turned her into two bears, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, and flung her into the stars, where she sings to this day. Sound does not carry in outer space.
Since 2000, more than 18 people have been killed by bears, including one 93-year-old woman. She wasn’t even in the woods—the bear broke into her house, like a common gigantic thief.
Legend has it that President Teddy Roosevelt, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, once beat a bear to death with a big stick. Ever since then children across the globe have enjoyed the teddy bear®.
One of history’s best-known bears, Smokey the Bear, was discovered by lovable rescue workers when the entire forest he lived in burned to the ground. For years he helped teach children not to make the same mistake with their own forests. He is currently buried in New Mexico.
On one night in 1967, two different bears located 10 miles apart killed two different 19-year-olds in Glacier National Park.
