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TIL Even comparing different races, two humans from anywhere on the planet are more similar than two Chimpanzees in the same troop, due to a massive volcano that bottlenecked our species’ population.

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0bZ1 TIL Coca-Cola has claimed they will be globally “water-neutral” by 2020 - meaning for every liter of water they use, they will return a liter to the Earth.
e07PJ TIL Sun Tzu had to train the king's concubines as soldiers, so he chose 2 as captains & gave an order, but they all just giggled. He ordered the captains' death, to the king's protests. Sun Tzu said he had to complete his mission. The captains were killed & the squads then performed perfectly.
ZZKa TIL Caltech students, as a part of a long running pranking war, infiltrated an MIT fair and handed out 400 T-shirts that read “MIT” on the front and “because not everybody can go to Caltech” on the back.
R7PXw TIL that among George Washingtons many dogs, one of them was named Cornwallis, after general Cornwallis
4kMRN TIL Prince Charles was 1st in line for the British Throne from the age of three. He held that title for 70 years becoming the longest-serving British heir apparent, having surpassed Edward VII's record of 59 years on 20 April 2011.