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TIL: The Yellowstone Park bison herd (approx. 5,500) is descended from a remnant population of 23 individual bison that survived a mass slaughter in the 19th century by hiding out in the Pelican Valley of Yellowstone Park.

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788xb TIL that the American Association of Woodturners keep a running list of deaths due to patterning wood with high voltage sparks.
gMgNA TIL of the SS Richard Montgomery: a US WWII ship carrying munitions, grounded 2.4km from Sheerness, UK in 1944, and broken in two by the weight of the bombs on board. An estimated 1,400 tonnes of explosives remain on board the ship. It is monitored constantly & protected by a 500m exclusion zone.
awNOM TIL several European countries classify loot boxes in video games as gambling, forcing game companies such as Blizzard, EA and Valve to release "loot box-free" versions of their games in those territories.
xQyk TIL the first banned book in the US was Thomas Morton’s “New English Canaan” published in 1637, which was sympathetic to Native Americans and critical of the Puritans