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Never. We're probably stuck with our appendix, pinky toes, tailbone and just about all of our other evolutionary holdovers.

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kJorm TIL that after Sam Cooke sang "A Change is Gonna Come" on The Tonight Show (Feb 7, 1964), the network lost the only recording of the performance. Cooke elected never to perform it again in his lifetime (he was murdered in Dec of '64), due to the song's complexity and ominous nature.
OojX6 TIL Most Populous Mammals On Earth: squirrel, bat, mice, rat, human, cow, sheep, pig, dog, goat, rabbit, cat, water buffalo
rdmy TIL That John Hughes shot The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off back to back to save money. He also used the same crew and sets, including the high school with the same posters on the walls.
BrZrb TIL about a glitch in World of Warcraft that helped real world epidemiologists study how people react during the outbreak of a disease.
QNG79 TIL prior to 2007, no one had ever seen an echidna ejaculate.