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TIL time flows faster at the surface of the earth than it does in the core.

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XEm7k TIL At Harvard, Native Americans make up almost 2 percent of the student body. Only 67 percent of Native Americans graduate from high school but there are also "more Native American students applying to 12, 15 colleges, including top institutions, and that was never done before”
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