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  2. Chicago rat hole - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago rat hole was a hole shaped like a rat in the sidewalk of West Roscoe Street in the Roscoe Village neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. After existing for decades, it became a viral phenomenon on social media (mainly Twitter) in January 2024, attracting tourists to the site. City officials removed the sidewalk slab ...

  3. 'Playground for rats': Chicago crowned 'rattiest city' in ...

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    For the 10th consecutive year, a popular pest control company has crowned Chicago the "rattiest city."Orkin, an American pest control company founded in 1901, announced the "honor" on Monday.

  4. Baby owl dies from suspected rat poisoning three weeks after ...

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    Experts say both the baby and the elder owl are suspected to have died from rat poison. Though the owl was sent to the Willowbrook Wildlife Center to determine a cause of death, Annette Prince ...

  5. Cats Are Curtailing Chicago's Rat Problem - AOL

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    Out of all things Chicago is known for, its rat problem is not exactly a source of pride for the city's residents and businesses. For eight years in a row, the pest control company Orkin has ...

  6. d-CON - Wikipedia

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    The initial 1950's ad pitch emphasized the following points: rats do a large amount of damage to crops each year ("$22 a year per rat"); d-CON poses minimal risk to other animals; the product is undetectable (odorless and tasteless) by rats and does not produce bait shyness; and, the product was successfully tested in Middleton, Wisconsin.

  7. Lists of poisonings - Wikipedia

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    Jamestown colonists (1607–1610); standard historical accounts suggest many early colonists died of starvation, but the possibility of arsenic poisoning by rat poison (or of death by bubonic plague) has also been reported [5] Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (d. 1612) Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1637)

  8. List of food contamination incidents - Wikipedia

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    1971 – 1971 Iraq poison grain disaster: 100 to 400 died of mercury poisoning by eating seeds intended for planting and treated with mercury as a fungicide. [16] [17] 1973 – Michigan PBB contamination incident: Widespread poisoning of people in Michigan by meat from cattle fed feed contaminated with polybrominated biphenyl flame retardant ...

  9. New law will ban rat poison that was harmful to wildlife - AOL

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    The law will place a permanent moratorium on a rat poison that unintentionally also kills predators, such as mountain lions, coyotes and other animals.