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Guess what, Mango?

What's that, Will?

Did you know there's a polar bear jail in Churchill, Canada?

So I do know that Churchill is considered the polar bear capital of the world

because my mom has wanted to make a pilgrimage there forever.

And I'd also heard that people there leave their cars unlocked

in case you ever need to make like a quick escape from a wayward bear.

Wait, are you serious about that?

You could actually just hop in a stranger's car and take shelter, which is such a weird thing.

I'm sure you can only get so much protection from a crazed bear in a car.

But tell me about polar bear jail.

Well, according to the Atlantic, it was built in 1982, and it has space for 28 fuzzy inmates.

Basically, it's the town has so many bears wandering through.

Officials have set up a hotline for locals.

It's just 675 bear.

So if you see a bear on the outskirts of town, officials will come and try to scare it away with whatever they can use, whether it's firecrackers or sometimes rubber bullets or paintballs.

And generally, the bears get the hint.

But if a bear decides he still wants to visit or worse, if a bear starts loitering in places that they shouldn't be, that's often what juvenile bears will do.

That's when the threat of jail time kicks in.

So the bear patrol tries to lure these big delinquents into a giant cylindrical trap baited with seal meat.

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