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TIL milk and earwax are types of sweat.

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ky9g TIL in May, 2017, a big game hunter famous for pioneering “Monteria Hunts” where packs of dogs scare big game animals toward groups of hunters died after an elephant fell on him
LkEKZ TIL in 1845 a severely depressed dog tried to commit suicide by jumping into a river and refusing to make any attempt to escape (which goes against natural instincts). Even after being rescued, the dog ran back to the river. Eventually, the dog succeeded and died.
YpZA7 TIL that Sylvester Stallone kept the two turtles, "Cuff" and "Link" from the 1976 movie Rocky, and they are still alive today at 44!
OoAe4 TIL Jersey Mike’s Subs is named after a local New Jersey shop named Mike’s Submarines, and not after the owner and CEO Peter Cancro.
E1ow7 TIL about Soong Mei-Ling, the sister-in-law of Sun Yat-sen and the wife of Chiang Kai-shek. Her life traversed three centuries, and she lived through pretty much all the forms of government that China has tried - emperor, republic, communism, dictatorship.