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TIL of an infamous bear in 1915 that killed and ate seven people over the period of a few days in a Japanese village, and that in the aftermath of the attacks (and hunting the bear) the village was completely abandoned.

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8e7mb TIL A deer species went extinct after the last living specimen was beaten to death by a drunk man
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0wdAR Possibly. The trees-down (or “arboreal”) hypothesis has been around for many years, says evolutionary biologist Richard O. Prum of Yale University. Researchers guessed that the scales of tree-dwelling Triassic reptiles elongated into feathers, which helped them leap away from predators. Once the proto-birds could glide, they were en route to avian flight. “It was like one big, crazy hairball of ideas all stuck together,” Prum says.
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WkZx4 TIL all 50 residents of Pitcairn Islands are descend from the only survivor of the mutineers who seized the HMS Bounty in 1789. The Europeans and male Tahitians killed each other and only John Adams was left with nine Tahitian women, who married all of them and raised 19 children.