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TIL Charlie Chaplin's corpse was dug up and held for ransom in 1978.

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W7VQ4 TIL that sandhill cranes have one of the longest fossil histories of any extant bird. The oldest confirmed sandhill crane fossil is 2.5 million years old, while most living species of birds date back to less than 1.8 million years.
x6OEB TIL in 1859, an Australian man named Thomas Austin released 24 rabbits for hunting on his estate. With no natural predators, they multiplied so rapidly that within a few decades, they overran Australia, causing massive ecological damage and leading to one of the largest control efforts in history.
MeGAb TIL That Singapore gained its independence upon being expelled from Malaysia over racial tensions between the Chinese and Malays, making it the only modern sovereign state to receive independence involuntarily
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v1l58 TIL that Ján Vojtaššák, deputy chairman of the Slovak parliament when it approved the deportation of Jews from Slovakia, is being considered for beatification.