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TIL 50 beavers were introduced into Tierra del Fuego in the 1940s to help start a fur trade. There are now over 100,000, and they have devastated over 16 million hectares.

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axjb TIL that Buddhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism were all formed in the 6th century BC. That century also gave us Pythagoras the philosopher, Xerxes I of Persia, and Sun Tzu, the author of “The Art of War”.
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