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TIL - Ants eat more meat than lions, tigers and wolves combined

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M7Dj7 TIL Paraguay has a province named after former US President Rutherford B. Hayes. This is because Hayes arbitrated a large border dispute in 1878, granting the vast majority of the disputed land to Paraguay. Despite being mostly unknown in the US, Hayes is considered one of Paraguay's heroes.
BgEbD TIL how one Japanese artist spent six months trekking 3000 miles through Japan with a GPS tracker to spell out ‘Marry Me’ across islands
Oowog TIL the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre were represented in court by John Adams, who successfully defended most of them against charges of murder.
mD7M TIL that there were serious plans in 1992 to build a full-scale replica of the USS Enterprise from Star Trek as a resort attraction in Las Vegas
x5XB TIL the world may run out of chocolate by 2020