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TIL that an 8 year old girl was orphaned when rotting potatoes killed her entire family.

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b9k6E TIL that Peter Gabriel is spearheading an ‘Interspecies Internet’ with 3 other scientists - an internet where humans and other intelligent animals can communicate with each other.