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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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oB0rL TIL in the US college text books can cost more than $1,000.
ALk7 TIL: Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized a significant portion of his doctoral dissertation from a dissertation written by another student three years earlier. King also plagiarized a portion of his “I Have a Dream” speech from Archibald Carey Jr.’s address to the 1952 Republican National Convention.
4XZ7J TIL The longest congaline in the world is 119,986 people long and that record hasn't been broken since 1988
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