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TIL about the Amami rabbit, native to Amami Ōshima and reminiscent of ancient rabbits, which exclusively inhabits two small islands in Japan.

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p8pGp TIL after the death of the 4th-century BCE Mausolus of Caria (in Anatolia), his wife and sister Artemisia reigned for 2 years. She built the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) in his honour, and in her grief is said to have mixed his ashes in her daily drink
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