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Use the following identities:

$x^2-y^2 \equiv (x-y)(x+y)$

and

$x^3+y^3 \equiv (x+y)(x^2-xy+y^2)$

to find the highest power of $2$ and the highest power of $3$ which divide $5^{36}-1$.