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TIL the great wall of china has caused the populations of plants on each side to diverge genetically.

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69pBZ TIL of Margaret Cavendish, the first woman to be invited to attend a session of the Royal Society and one of the first writers of science fiction.
J1OO4 TIL Before 9/11, the deadliest building collapse since the Civil War was the Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse, which killed 114 people and whose chief cause were rods only rated to handle 30% of the weight the walkway was designed for snapped and fell on a High School Reunion Tea Dance
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