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“Humans share about 98.7% of their DNA with chimpanzees and bonobos, which makes them our closest living relatives.”

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Reference: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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There is an ant in Brazil that has a gland which causes the ant to explode like a bomb, spraying a sticky toxic
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