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Have you ever heard of the Emu War? It was a hilariously disastrous attempt at wild animal population control, and while you'd think that humans would have gotten better at that sort of thing in the last hundred-ish years, that doesn't seem to be the case. From making drug-resistant super rats to shooting at wolves from helicopters, here are seven of the ways we've tried to control nature, only for our efforts to backfire.
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