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TIL a British communist in New Zealand released 15,000+ invasive fish using his Ford Zephyr he’d converted with fish tanks. He permanently damaged waterways and ecosystems

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b9aGp TIL the creator of the sims got the idea for the video game while trying to rebuild his life after a house fire.
KOOZQ TIL there was an anti-gang unit in the LAPD that had ties to the Bloods. Over 70 officers were implicated in misconduct like shooting civilians, robbing banks, beating suspects (or worse), stealing cocaine, and framing civilians. Some believe the unit was involved in the murder of Biggie Smalls.
nW8MG TIL about Zamor, a child who was kidnapped by British slave traders and eventually sold to King Louis XV, who gifted him to a mistress. He would later turn against her during the French Revolution, before being imprisoned himself as an accomplice.
EgQRw TIL NATO article 5 doesn’t cover anything outside of Europe, North America, Turkey, and islands in the Atlantic north of the Tropic of Cancer.
9Yl4M TIL The Roman Catholic Church stated in 1950 that there is no intrinsic conflict between Christianity and Darwin’s Theory of Evolution