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TIL that peaches and nectarines are the same fruit. Nectarines simply have a recessive allele for smooth skin.

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9Yem TIL that gorillas are able to remember their kin even after being separated as infants
4krrw TIL that the French waved the white flag as a symbol of military command.
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BrAKD Today I Learned that 3-toed sloths and 2-toed sloths aren't closely related to each other, and each group evolved the tree-hanging lifestyle independently, an example of convergent evolution.