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TIL the first settlers of Madagascar hunted the local megafauna into extinction and demolished the islands' forest ecosystem, turning it into barren grasslands

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m1Y9o TIL that in mediaeval England, an area of special legal jurisdiction extended around the monarch and his court and traveled with him. Legal cases that arose within a 12-mile radius of the monarch (known as the "verge") were tried before a Court of the Verge.
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