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TIL that, while the passenger pigeon had a range across multiple U.S. states, the largest nesting sites were recorded in Wisconsin and Michigan in the 1870s, but the bird went extinct in the wild by 1902. The extinction of the passenger pigeon is also tied to the modern Lyme disease epidemic.

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wLBwP TIL: Louis XIV became king at the age of four; however, he was initially under the guardianship of his mother. Louis XIV was given the nicknames "Sun King" or "The Great". When he died on September 1, 1715, after 72 years of kingship, he was one of the longest reigning monarchs in modern history.
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