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TIL of the Wake Island Rail, a little-known casualty of WW2; it went extinct when Japanese soldiers were stranded on the island by a US blockade. With no fear of predators, a combo of overhunting by the starving Japanese & the bombing of the island by the US wiped out the entire species in 1 year

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