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TIL Pandas will sometimes fake pregnancies to receive more food and special treatment from humans

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6ZVQ TIL a bacteriologist killed 90% of all wild rabbits in France in the span of 2 years when he gave a disease called Myxomatosis to 2 rabbits in his backyard.
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