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TIL that city life is potentially diverging a population of raccoons down an alternate evolutionary path in comparison to their rural counterparts. City raccoons show higher intelligence and just a few decades of city life has changed raccoon populations more than the previous 40,000 years.

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XPKE TIL that the Jonestown mass suicide in 1978 was responsible for the largest loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act prior to September 11, 2001
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