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TIL humans were almost certainly deep-sea fishing over 42,000 years ago.

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yBYa TIL that film-maker Casey Neistat spent the entire promo budget for The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty on the Philippines-typhoon-aid, with permission of 20th Century Fox.
LkBkr TIL Proxima Centuauri, the nearest-known star to the Sun, is 4.244 lightyears (about 40.15 trillion kilometres or 24.95 trillion miles) away from it.
gMBdD TIL A small island in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay named Tangier Island still speaks a dialect of Old Modern English that sounds the most like British English.
p8pVb TIL Both male and female sweat have the same componds but in different composition. The difference in each aroma is caused by bacterial enzymes that changes the sweat to produce the smelly compounds. Women have a more oniony fragrance while men have more of a cheesy fragrance.
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