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TIL in 1950, a disease called Myxomatosis was introduced to rabbits for population control in Australia. It wiped out 500,000,000 rabbits, giving them skin tumors and causing blindness, often killing them within 2 weeks.

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neBv9 TIL In 2000, one of the worst peacetime submarines accidents ever took place off the coast of Russia. A huge explosion sank the giant nuclear-powered submarine Kursk, killing most of its crew and stranding nearly two dozen survivors hundreds of feet underwater.
j6JPX TIL sitting U.S. President Harry Truman went for a 440-foot deep ride on captured German submarine U-2513 in 1946
4G5w TIL: after opening the tomb of Casimir IV of Lithuania and Poland in 1973, 4 of the 12 present died within a few days, and 6 more soon afterwards
kABB TIL that there hasn’t been a Democrat-nominated chief justice in almost 60 years.
epyME TIL In the USA, 60 people die from walk-in freezer accidents per year