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National Geographic explorer Helle Olsen explains why mandrills have such colourful bums.

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YPMW TIL that under the Articles of Confederation, Canada could join at any time
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LQodZ TIL the ship USS Samuel B Robert's is the deepest shipwreck ever found and photographed at four and one half miles deep in the Philippine sea.
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