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TIL that during World War 2, the administrator of Tokyo, Shigeo Ōdachi, ordered that all "wild and dangerous animals" at the Ueno zoo in Tokyo be killed, claiming that bombs could hit the zoo and escaped animals would wreak havoc in the streets of Tokyo.

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