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TIL bears in Yellowstone can eat 40,000 moth grubs per day.

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R7X58 TIL New York's Woolworth Building was once a household name and the tallest building in the world for 17 years. Even though it is a National Historic Landmark, tourists are not welcome unless they book a tour with the great-granddaughter of the Woolworth Building's architect, Cass Gilbert
d8y59 TIL, in music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece. (46 & 2 is an example of this)
neGMd TIL Famed Chess player Bobby Fischer is such an anti-semite that he once journaled "it’s ... time for vigilante killings of Jews – random killings of Jews." He even drafted a letter to Osama Bin Laden sharing his hatred and is a vehement holocaust denier.
ANOMn TIL that after leading a peasant revolt in Hungary in 1514, György Dósza was punished by being chained to a heated iron throne and had pieces of flesh torn off by hot pliers. His followers were then forced to eat him alive by biting the spots where the pliers were inserted and to swallow his flesh.
8e0b4 TIL That Anne Spielberg, sister of Steven, co-wrote the movie Big.