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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)

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8aZnL TIL about Judah Friedlander, of the sitcom 30 Rock. His ever-changing, slogan-bearing trucker hats became a gag on the show. Friedlander makes his hats himself and created enough of them to be able to wear a different one in each scene of 30 Rock, which was about three hats per show for 6 seasons.
GLp4 TIL rape is the leading cause of PTSD in female veterans. With the majority of rapes being perpetrated by fellow soldiers.
xAJ7 TIL that about 90% of ALL American silent films have been permanently lost as well as about half of all American sound films made before 1950.
pNnN TIL Bishop Rock is a tiny island 4 miles off the coast of Cornwall, and its single lighthouse makes it the “world’s smallest island with a building on it”
QJVXe TIL of Grady “Lobster Boy” Stiles, a carnival performer born with a genetic condition that fused his hands & feet into claws. He murdered his son-in-law-to-be on the night before his wedding; he got house arrest because no prison could accommodate him. He was shot and killed for abusing his wife.