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VMEn8 TIL In 1859, a man imported 24 rabbits to Australia. In under 70 years, the populaton grew to 10 billion.
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9wgXp TIL that a cat named Tommy called 911 to help its owner, Gary, who had fallen from his wheelchair and couldn't get up. Gary had tried to train Tommy to call 911, but never expected it to work.
Vwok TIL that Mother Teresa’s supposed “miracle cure” of a woman’s abdominal tumor was not a miracle at all. The patient’s doctors and husband said she was cured because she took medicine for 9-12 months. “My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle.”
9oxm TIL of the term OOPart (Out-of-place artifact) which refers to an artifact of historical, archaeological, or paleontological interest found in an unusual context, that challenges conventional historical chronology by being “too advanced” for the level of civilization that existed at the time.