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TIL The Leaning Tower of Pisa is slowly straightening out

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OG6ag TIL bears in Yellowstone can eat 40,000 moth grubs per day.
ANQ7o TIL that since 2004, Parque EcoAlberto, an outdoor adventure park in the Mexican state of Hidalgo, has offered a 3 hour nighttime experience that puts visitors through a fake crossing of the US-Mexico border with sirens, dogs, chases, drug smugglers and the fake border patrol yelling threats.
KOG0J TIL that Hawaii's state bird, a goose known locally as the nēnē, was at one point down to a population of only 30 in the wild. After 60 years of conservation efforts to restore the population, the nēnē have rebounded and there are now roughly 2,800 birds roaming the islands.
KO7rJ TIL that Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was not born in India as widely thought. His birthplace was in Lumbini, which is in modern day Nepal. Lumbini is now a World Heritage Site and a popular pilgrimage destination.
pJp TIL that the Beatles had to dodge jellybeans thrown at them on stage because fans heard George Harrison liked them