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TIL milk and earwax are types of sweat.

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GOv1 TIL Steve Jobs’ doctors correctly predicted that the St. Patrick’s Day/March Madness weekend would cause fatalities that would yield the organ donation he needed.
KObbG TIL: The Pokemon franchise has generated approximately three times as much money as Harry Potter
e0wJb TIL the Aquatic Ape Theory suggests that early hominids lived in water part of the time and accounts for our hairless bodies (streamlined for swimming) our upright, two-legged walking (made wading easier) & our layers of subcutaneous fat, which made us better insulated in water (think whale blubber)
6EgJQ Jupiter is made of mostly hydrogen and helium gas. So, trying to land on it would be like trying to land on a cloud here on Earth. There's no outer crust to break your fall on Jupiter. Just an endless stretch of atmosphere. The big question, then, is: Could you fall through one end of Jupiter and out the other? It turns out, you wouldn't even make it halfway.
wLpgo TIL that 'Deep Throat' pornographic actor Herbert Streicher aka "Harry Reems" later in life had a successful real estate career using his porn stage name to do real estate business