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TIL milk and earwax are types of sweat.

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Egx7x TIL that the term "millionaire" was first used in the U.S. by Thomas Jefferson in 1786. That is equivalent to approximately $30M today.
a88y9 TIL The presidential yacht of Yugoslavia, Galeb, was a former Italian and Nazi warship. The Nazis minelayer was sunk by the Allies in 1944 and Yugoslavia raised it, converting it to a yacht in 1952. Ship visitors include Queen Elizabeth II, Khrushchev, Nehru, Nasser, and Kurt Douglas.
l4R1 TIL that Honeycrisp apples were developed in 1974 by the University of Minnesota and patent royalties have generated more than $10 million by 2011 for the University.
4ajb TIL There was a large swastika made of larch trees in Germany that went unnoticed for 55 years
7rVRP TIL that the 250+ page novel Gadsby is written in English, and doesn't contain a single letter "e". "E" is the most commonly occurring letter in the English language.