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TIL Disney World is the second-largest purchaser of explosives in the United States. The first is the U. S. Department of Defense

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ZpWxY TIL for weeks, no one was able to identify what ailed a community of sick chimpanzees in Uganda, even as the animals had began to die. But researchers eventually discovered the body of an adult female & were able to determine that more than 12% of the community had been killed by the common cold.
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