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TIL that gorillas share 98.3% of their genetic code with humans, making them our closest cousins after chimpanzees and bonobos.

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e0X1J TIL that jigsaw puzzles almost never have the number of pieces they say on the box: most “1000-piece” puzzles are 38 x 27 = 1026
WkZKX TIL that ancient Israelites burned cannabis during worship
xwv7 TIL that Israel is one of only two countries that entered the 21st century with a net gain in the number of trees
1MMW TIL The United States Defense Budget of $698 Billion is More Than the Next Seventeen Nations Combined
8Zx4 TIL That for over 1,000 years a horn has been blown in Ripon every night at 9pm in the four corners of the town square. It is allegedly the longest running unbroken daily ritual in the world.