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TIL: About the 1998 Balleny Island earthquake, the largest recorded earthquake to strike Antarctica

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69pgm TIL Australian wedge-tailed eagles are ferociously territorial and attack drones, UAVs, paragliders and helicopters.
WkvZ4 TIL that "indoor cats" are overwhelmingly more common in the US [and Australia] than Europe, as they are an invasive species there
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