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TIL The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of large, man-eating lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, responsible for the deaths of many construction workers in 1898. The lions' skins were used as floor rugs for 25 years, before being sold to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

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