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TIL the easily identifiable USPS mail trucks lack air conditioning, anti-lock brakes, and even airbags

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6EDYY TIL only 1% of DNA is for protein-coding genes, the rest 99% is non-coding and was once thought to be junk. Later studies found that it can't be that such a huge chunk is just "packaging material" and it is starting to become clear that it has many uses, mainly as a regulator of different sorts
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