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TIL outdoor roaming domestic cats kill an estimated 14.7 billion birds and mammals every year in the US. The majority of birds killed are native and the majority of mammals killed in suburban and rural areas are native

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69oaw TIL that Elián González, famous for the the international custody battle over him as a child, is now a politician in Cuba
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