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TIL It is estimated that 70% of a feral hog population must be harvested every year to continue reducing the population size

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x4Z7 TIL the first man made aircraft to successfully land on another planet and send back data was the Soviet Venera 7 in 1970. After landing on Venus, the craft sent back only 23 minutes of weak data, presumably because it landed on its side.
0d0eN TIL that even though the Vatican says a bishop or archbishop should be referred to as "His/Your Excellency", the Canadian government does not recognize it, and instead refers to bishops by their title only
4xa6 TIL that during the 1988 purges in Iran, women were lashed for missing their daily prayers. When one woman died after 22 days and 550 lashes, the authorities certified her death as suicide because it was ‘she who had made the decision not to pray’.
yQyYe TIL that in 1784 Great Britain imposed a tax on bricks to pay for the war in America. In response, people starting using larger bricks, and buildings can be dated based on the brick size
J1Qmk TIL that a Japanese pest control company built a grave in a 1,200-year-old graveyard in honor of all the termites it has killed.