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TIL Tommy Chong’s daughter Rae Dawn Chong discovered actor Chris Pratt working as a waiter at a Bubba Gump restaurant and cast him in a film.

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RyM9 TIL American socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland tried to ‘cure’ her sons homosexuality by forcing him to sleep with her. She ended up being murdered by him. After his release from prison Antony Baekeland tried to kill his grandmother as well.
XVDr TIL that humans are the only living great ape species who have 23 pairs of chromosomes, all other species have 24 pairs.
0yvy TIL The human genome consists of DNA representing 800 MB of data. The parts that differentiate one person from another can be compressed to 4 MB.
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