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TIL The actress that plays Mara on the Progressive Insurance commercials is a lowbrow artist, here is one of her unveilings

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RXM4 TIL that the movie Crocodile Dundee’s character was loosely based on a man called Rod Ansell, who was lost in the outback for 56 days, sued Paul Hogan for not profiting from the film, lost his property, started growing weed, got hooked on meth and ended up dying in a drug fuelled police shootout.
Br1re TIL humans are the sweatiest primates alive. We have up to five million sweat glands producing a maximum of three gallons of sweat per day. The production of sweat glands is inversely related to the production of hair, and the evolutionary loss of our hair is connected to our success as a species.
9W6 TIL that it is possible to donate spare processing power on your computer to help the CERN’s LHC process data.
OovnX TIL: The character of Ian Malcolm in "Jurassic Park" was nearly written out of the script. The writers planned to combine him with the character of Dr. Grant, but Jeff Goldblum wanted to be in a Steven Spielberg movie and asked Spielberg to keep the character.
E1A0X TIL that Mussolini's great-grandson is a soccer player who plays on the right wing at Lazio