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TIL Feral cats kill an estimated 466 million reptiles a year in Australia

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m1l1P TIL In 1874 Tom Collins was a fake individual used to prank people. The prankster would tell the victim that Collins had slandered them and have the victim pursue the fictional man. Newspapers would go to make fake reports on Collins and music halls had songs about the event.
xJg1 TIL: Twisted Sister did 3,000 club perfomances and sold out the Palladium theater in NYC all without a recording contract or radio airplay. No one in the biz would touch them. TS ended up pressing their own albums and before finally getting a deal with a small UK punk label.
LQvVp TIL the first AI generated image was created in the 1970s
QDd6 TIL that in Mexico, Artists Can Pay Their Taxes Using Artwork that They Create.
696Y7 TIL: Why George Washington's Statue in London Doesn't Touch British Soil