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TIL that mirror image twins are perfect reflections of each other, are exactly right- and left-handed, have birthmarks exactly on opposite sides of their body and have hair whorls that swirl in opposite directions.

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KyOQ TIL of the Little Dodo bird, a smaller relative of the extinct Dodo, which is still alive today, but once again being pushed to the brink of extinction
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