diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+++ b/README.md
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Key points:
 
 - The benefits of the `parallel` hash maps are:
 
-   a. reduced peak memory usage (when resizing), and 
+   a. reduced peak memory usage (when resizing), and  
    b. multithreading support (and inherent internal parallelism)