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TIL That there is over 7.2 million foxes in Australia thanks to British settlers who imported them in for the purpose of fox hunting

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6EP0Z TIL that Aaron Burr, infamous for killing Alexander Hamilton, was an early proponent of women’s rights. He praised Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” and provided his daughter with an education usually only afforded to boys of the time.
x6aQ0 TIL that the Convair Model 118, a tentative flying car from 1947, was shelved because its prototype crashed when a test pilot mixed up the flight engine's fuel gauge with the road engine's and didn't see the former run out. While he survived, this killed interest in the project.
bdna TIL that in a review of the vocal ranges of popular singers, Mike Patton of Faith No More was found to have the widest at just over six octaves.
xvgg TIL that American car seats are illegal to use in most of the rest of the world due to the addition of the chest clip
yVYXV TIL about Cordelia Botkin, a U.S. woman who mailed a box of poisoned chocolates to Elizabeth Dunning, her ex-lover's wife, in 1898. Dunning and her older sister, Ida Harriet Deane, died two days later. It was the 1st prosecuted U.S. crime that took place in two states (mailed from CA to DE).