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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dblH90 on 2024-01-04 00:40:31.

Original Title: TIL that Bisons were in millions up until the beginning of 20th century, the reason was because European settlers and US governments were systematically working on slaughtering them, as a strategy of displacement to enforce native americans to leave.