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TIL Chinese researchers developed a face-identification model to tell giant pandas apart

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e07pn TIL Half of the world's prison population of about nine million is held in the US, China or Russia.
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awYrb TIL Part of the reason we sigh is because the alveoli in the lungs collapse with disuse, and a sigh pops them back open by taking in more air. Humans average about 12 sighs an hour, and without them our lungs would fail.