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

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8adQP TIL in 2016, 5,712 Native American women were reported missing. Only 116 were logged in the DOJ database.
78ZD7 TIL that the British won a significant naval victory after the Battle of Yorktown in the Caribbean, called the Battle of the Saintes, which returned their advantage at sea. This had a major impact on the post-American Revolution peace treaty giving the British much better terms.
e0kj6 TIL the oldest monument in Paris is over 3,000 years old. The Ottoman ruler of Egypt gave a 75 ft, 250 ton ancient Egyptian obelisk to France in exchange for a mechanical clock in 1833. The obelisk was placed in the center of the Place de la Concorde where it stands today.
KO7DR TIL about Pope Gregory XVIII, an anti-pope of the Palmarian Catholic Church who left the faith, married a nun, stole a BMW, attempted armed robbery on his former Cathedral, and is now in jail.
wdAY TIL 14 of the world’s 25 largest stadiums belong to American college football teams.