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TIL that Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s tyrannical leader, has been appointed UN ambassador for tourism despite being accused of ethnic cleansing, vote rigging and being unable to leave Zimbabwe due to a travel ban.

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M7XBb TIL that in 2017, scientists successfully created a human-pig embryo, but terminated it after 4 weeks due to ethics concerns.
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