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10 Random Facts - January 2021 Edition

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1. Grizzly bears have a surprising thing in their diet. To be more specific grizzly bears that live in Yellowstone National Park have a surprising thing in their diet, moths. Every year during the summer hundreds of thousands of millers, which are the adults of the army cutworm, make their way from the farmlands up to the mountains to seek refuge from the sun in between the rocks. Grizzly bears that live in Yellowstone, and sometimes even a black bear or two, will climb up specifically for the purpose of eating these moths. It might seem odd to think of something that big eating something so tiny, but they are actually quite nutritious especially considering the number of moths the bears eat per day. One moth has enough fat to count as about one half of a calorie, and then each bear eats about forty thousand of these moths a day. Meaning that it's belly is filled with about twenty thousand calories just from these little moths daily. 2. William Henry Harrison's inauguration spe...