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TIL If you were to unravel all the DNA molecules in your body and lay them end to end, they would stretch from the Earth to the Sun and back over 600 times.

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vPE48 TIL: Pieces of Africa are embedded in the southeastern United States
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gME4L TIL United States granted citizenship to Puerto Ricans in 1917 to allow them to be drafted to participate in World War I. Approximately 20,000 Puerto Ricans were drafted.
d8keZ TIL about the Bangladesh genocide of 1971. This was the largest genocide since the Holocaust, with upwards of 3,000,000 people dying.
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