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TIL the longest name of any geographic feature in the United States is a 45 letter lake in Massachusetts called Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (aka Webster Lake)

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mvop TIL that every human’s DNA is 99.9% the same, and that the last 0.01% is enough to identify different DNA sequences (and tell what DNA belongs to who)
oRekA TIL of Lystrosaurus, an animal that survived Permian-Triassic extinction event. At one point it represented 95% of all land vertebrates for millions of years. Among other suggestions, it has been proposed this dominance was a matter of sheer luck.
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0dNrA TIL that the United States severed direct diplomatic relations with the Vatican in 1867 in the wake of rumors of Catholic implication in the Lincoln assassination. Direct relations were reestablished in 1984.
R7yyw TIL of the White House Peace Vigil a 24-hour a day anti-nuclear weapons peace vigil started by William Thomas in 1981. Thomas believed it to be the longest running uninterrupted anti-war protest in U.S. history