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TIL about the 1944-54 Kirov wolf attacks. Due to the need of hunters and rifles for WW2, man-eating wolf packs in Russian Kirov region lost their fear of humans, advanced into towns and villages in broad daylight, hunting mainly children and teenagers, killing 22.

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