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TIL To prevent cheating during university entrance exams Uzbekistan shuts off the entire country's internet for five hours on exam day

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VMLnQ TIL When a poacher’s snare killed one of their own, two young gorillas teamed up to find and dismantle traps in their Rwandan forest home. They saw what they had to do, they did it then moved to dismantle next trap.
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