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TIL Australia conducted biological warfare against its invasive rabbit population, reducing the population from 600 million to 100 million.

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w9rP TIL that in Season 8 Episode 2 of ‘The Fairly OddParents’, Timmy Turner is on fairy trial for keeping his first ever wish a secret. It’s revealed that the wish was for everyone to stop aging so he could have his fairies forever. When asked how long ago the wish was made, he guesses around 50 years.
8pQX TIL Johnny Cash accidentally started a wildfire when he let his pickup overheat in a CA forest. When asked why he did it, he responded “I didn’t do it, my truck did, and it’s dead, so you can’t question it.”
WkkoB TIL There used to be mushroom farms in the Paris Catacombs
EyLx TIL America’s poverty line was designed with the thought that every American household had a housewife who was a skilled cook, and has only ever been adjusted for inflation.
xVkgk TIL that after Patton liberated Ohrdruf, the first liberated concentration camp, he brought the mayor and the mayor's wife to see the camp. After they left, they hanged themselves.