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  • PresterJohnBrown [any]
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    4 years ago

    Fun fact, those feral hogs are descendants of Hernando De Soto's hogs, which escaped from his expedition as it traveled around the Mississippi river valley civilization before accidentally (and a bit intentionally) killing it with the cocktail of plagues his men carried. The next explorer to the region was a century later and by then the entire civilization was gone, so we know very little about them.