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

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wLQDE TIL that musician Moby claimed in his second memoir to have been in a relationship with actress Natalie Portman when she was 18. Portman denied it, saying “my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me when I just had graduated high school.” Moby canceled his book tour and apologized.
ygv8 TIL that “The Legend of Bagger Vance”, a movie about a golf game, is actually a modern-day rendition of the Bhagavad Gita, an ancient sacred Hindu text.
4kZyo TIL that the last major attempt at colonization by the British Empire began in 1938. The Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme was intended to start sustainable settlements on three Pacific atolls to increase British influence in the area. With coconuts as their only export, they were abandoned in 1963.
p8ooG TIL the division sign symbol is called obelus. I guess there's a name for everything...
WGoL TIL According to the Torah, Jews are supposed to kill any Amalekite they meet. There are no people from Amalek today.