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TIL that Agent Scully on The X-Files is implied on multiple occasions to be immortal

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kJ981 TIL all of Australia's 200 million wild rabbits are descended from a group of 13 European rabbits released in 1859 by Thomas Austin, a British settler released for him to hunt on his farm, by 1920 they peaked at 10 billion before a mass scale poisoning to prevent causing more environmental damage.
e04X4 TIL: The Hope Diamond was mailed through the United States Postal Service costing only $2 and $150 to insure.
Eg4kd TIL the first traffic signal, erected in London in 1868, was powered by gas. A gas leak caused it to explode a month later.
xJMg TIL that Canada has a maple syrup cartel.
d8nmr TIL the U.S. didn’t have a designated presidential security detail until 3 presidents had already been assasinated.