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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
According to Wikipedia, it was even worse: The sparrows did indeed eat some rice, but they ate even more rice-eating insects, like locusts. So killing off the sparrows led to locust plagues -> no rice -> starvation.  The things you learn here... |
Thanks for the expanded trivia.
In 1915, the lock millionaire Cecil Chubb bought his wife Stonehenge. She didn’t like it, so in 1918 he gave it to the nation.