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TIL it remains a scientific mystery how Baikal Seals originally came to Lake Baikal, hundreds of kilometers from any ocean. Estimated to have inhabited Lake Baikal for some two million years, the Baikal Seal is the only true freshwater seal on Earth.

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Awxo TIL Martin Luther King’s doctoral thesis stole heavily from another dissertation - 45% of the first half and 21% of the second half of King’s thesis was plagiarized but his degree was not revoked
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