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TIL: Due to the invasive Burmese Python, Florida’s raccoon population fell by 99.3 percent, opossum by 98.9 percent, and bobcat by 87.5 percent between 2003 and 2011.

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VBG6k TIL the phrase "neither rhyme nor reason" is from Edmund Spenser. Elizabeth I told her treasurer to pay Spenser "what is reason." Edmund wasn't paid, and wrote "I was promis'd on a time,\To have a reason for my rhyme:\From that time unto this season,\I receiv'd nor rhyme nor reason." He got paid.
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oPY7 TIL JFK Warned About Secret Societies and the Danger of the Media Reporting On Trivial Matters for Entertainment Instead of News
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