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TIL that whales and dolphins evolved from small, hoofed, hippo-like animals

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0n5R TIL that after World War II, the Nazi concentration camps of Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald were repurposed as Soviet gulags, in which tens of thousands of people perished.
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