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TIL On May 25th, 2015 a man discovered an orphaned baby moose in Yellowstone National Park in Montana. When he reported the calf to local authorities they shot the baby and blew up the carcasses of it, it’s dead mother and sibling to prevent grizzly bears from being drawn to the area.

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R5jOw TIL that in ancient Rome, urine was so valuable for cleaning and tanning leather that emperors placed a tax on it.
peEp TIL Satan was never named “Lucifer.” The only use of the word Lucifer in the Bible was by Isaiah, who was referring to the fall of Babylon, not Satan.
0wwpA TIL of endowment effect, hypothesis that people overvalue things just because they own them
l77B1 TIL that in Germany flying insects have declined by 76% in 26 years.
6yjm TIL: In the 1500’s, the Iroquois tribes designed quite an elaborate political system. This included a bicameral (two-house) legislature, much like the British Parliament and modern U.S. Congress. Such a complex political arrangement was unknown in Europe at that time.