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TIL How indigenous people shaped Australia’s curious geography of plants

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aR89 TIL 50 beavers were introduced into Tierra del Fuego in the 1940s to help start a fur trade. There are now over 100,000, and they have devastated over 16 million hectares.
nWryY TIL that the number of priests has been down 60% in the last 50 years leaving 3500 churches without one
W7Lr4 TIL the Port Chicago disaster accounted for 15% of all African American casualties in World War II
a86WZ TIL the chief of the German military cabinet Graf von Hülsen-Haeseler died in 1908 dressed in a pink tutu after trying to lift the Kaiser’s mood, when he suffered a heart attack.
J5vQ TIL that “competitive endurance tickling” is a thing, and that it apparently has a seedy criminal underbelly filled with personal attacks, legal threats, and manipulation