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TIL the orange is a hybrid between pomelo and mandarin

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bDLp TIL Johns Hopkins no longer performs sex change operations because they believe the desire to change one’s sex is a mental disorder.
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e094J TIL that Napoleon actually lost most of his troops during the summer period of his invasion of Russia rather than during the infamous winter retreat. France started with ~650,000 troops and many died from heat exhaustion and disease. The army numbered about 100,000 by the time it reached Moscow.
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