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TIL Sacha Baron-Cohen’s cousin is a world famous Autism reseracher

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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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