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TIL 50% of human DNA matches a banana

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R58X8 TIL that Manipur is known as the Jewel of India.
6gyl TIL female hyenas have eliminated rape by growing their reproductive organ into a pseudo penis that is impossible to penetrate without consent
Z8KQG TIL Walt Disney's younger sister Ruth lived to age 92. Ruth was very shy and private, giving less than a half dozen interviews over the decades. Walt would send an annual December birthday letter to Ruth, accompanied by a check along with a selection of Disney-related merchandise for her son
LkPV TIL it is illegal to run out of gas on the Autobahn
DnoP TIL that during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Russian submarine ordered a nuclear bomb to be launched against America thinking war had broken out on the surface, but was stopped by one man, single-handedly preventing nuclear war