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TIL Robin Williams used to trash-talk teenagers on Call of Duty, and described the series as "cyber cocaine".

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aO6Z TIL the genome of modern humans contains the DNA from four different hominid ancestors: homo sapiens, Neanderthals, Denisovans, and a fourth species that has yet to be discovered.
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