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TIL humans are experts at sweating. In 1 hour, a horse can lose about 100grams of water per sq meter of skin. However, a human can easily shed 500grams per sq meter, which helped our ancestors become unrivalled predators as we can stalk prey until they collapse from heat exhaustion

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Y7Wed TIL in 2006 a jury awarded $24.2m to two men who were severely burned by a 12,500-volt electrical wire when they trespassed onto railroad property and climbed atop a rail car. The two men, who were 17 at the time of the accident, argued the companies should've placed warning signs about the wires.
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