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TIL about 78-year-old twin sisters Margaret and Marjorie Barthel — who were purposefully and lovingly feeding rats, nurturing an exponentially multiplying population of rats on the affluent Westside of LA, which experts believe ranged from tens of thousands to as many as a half-million Rats

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