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TIL Iran has the highest number of US college alums serving in any foreign government cabinet.

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oBRJr It all depends on the size, physical fitness and hydration of the person in question, but it’s possible to sweat buckets before heatstroke sets in and we pass out. After all, there are about three million sweat glands on the human body (the highest concentration is on our palms), and the average person aggressively working out perspires about 0.7 to 1.5 liters per hour. Theoretically, if we were attached to a treadmill and pumped full of liquids, it’s possible to keep sweating forever.
GGEJ TIL Italians are growing an outdoor cathedral, its roof & walls made of soaring branches
yLQa TIL in 1831 an American pepper trading ship was attacked off the Island of Sumatra, where locals killed 3 and plundered the ship. In retaliation, Andrew Jackson sent a warship all the way back to Sumatra to destroy the village the attackers were from.
6EKaJ TIL Nick Nolte was named 1992's "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine.
neDDY TIL children’s writer and cartoonist Shel Silverstein worked for Playboy Magazine in the 1960’s