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TIL one breeding pair of rabbits and their offspring can create nearly 4 million rabbits in only 4 years.

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LkGlv TIL Liza Hamilton (real life grandmother of John Steinbeck and basis for the "East of Eden" character) died in the 1918 flu pandemic.
BQKD TIL that Andrew Wakefield’s study on vaccines causing Autism was debunked in 1999, and the paper he wrote on the subject was retracted in 2010!
ML9B TIL that if the man rationing the rum on a ship was suspected of cheating would be challenged to mix the rum with gunpowder. rum that was not watered down and was “over proof”, would still allow the power to ignite, coining the term.
r8X4 TIL Lucy was a chimp who was raised as a human. She was forced back into the wild at the age of 12 when she was more human than ape. A year later, her remains were found with her skin, hands, and feet taken by poachers. It is believe she openly approached them due to her friendliness towards humans.
rNYmy TIL Charles Darwin's personal pet tortoise (Harriet) didn't die until recently at an estimated age of 175 years.