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TIL:The phrase “In the Limelight” actually comes from the theater spot lights that used a torch to burn quicklime.

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neJXo TIL sweat glands mature during the first 2 years of life. So people who grew up in warm climates have more active sweat glands than people who grew up in a climate-controlled environment or in cold climates.
m1w0E TIL of Philae 436, likely the very last ancient Egyptian heiroglyphs to be carved.
1a5JP TIL "Lebe wie die Made im Speck" is a German idiom that means "to live luxuriously", but when translated word for word, means "to live like a maggot in bacon".
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0wPMv TIL about Aristarchus of Samos, who was the first person ever to hypothesize that the Earth revolves around the Sun almost 2,000 years before Copernicus, as well as the idea that distant bodies like stars were exactly like our own Sun and contained planets.