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TIL that humans have the same amount of hair as gorillas and other primates, ours is just shorter and thinner

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b9QnN TIL poison oak and mangoes come from the same plant family
O1V1 TIL: 93% of the Great Barrier Reef is now damaged by coral bleaching
6E7W TIL: Irena Sendler, a woman who saved 2,500 Polish Jews from the Holocaust was beat out for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for Al Gore and global warming.
Wa04 TIL that the first woman to be nominated as a US Presidential Candidate was Victoria Woodhull of the “Equal Rights Party” in 1872
VVwZ TIL there is a massive amount of water under the Earth’s crust, nearly equal to the mass of all the water in Earth’s oceans.